Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 + RN 4.3; site inset.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!mcvax!ukc!stc!inset!jr From: jr@inset.UUCP (Jim R Oldroyd) Newsgroups: net.internat Subject: Re: What do we REALLY want? Message-ID: <753@inset.UUCP> Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 15:24:51 EST Article-I.D.: inset.753 Posted: Wed Oct 23 15:24:51 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 04:40:32 EST References: <723@inset.UUCP> <960@erix.UUCP> Reply-To: jr@inset.UUCP (Jim R Oldroyd) Organization: The Instruction Set Ltd., London, UK. Lines: 16 Xpath: stc stc-a In article <960@erix.UUCP> mike@erix.UUCP (Mike Williams) writes: >It all depend on for what we want to use UNIX. I use UNIX as a collection of >programming tools. However if I wanted to use UNIX for word processing, I >might buy a good word processing package. This is EXACTLY the point I was making. Mike goes on to say that it is up to each piece of software to interprate the internal codes in whatever way it suits best. But what happens if one wishes to use the same input files for different applications? -- ++ Jim R Oldroyd ++ jr@inset.UUCP ++ ..!mcvax!ukc!inset!jr