Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!ucsd!nprdc!halff From: halff@nprdc.arpa (Henry Halff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Comp.binaries.mac moderation (FLAME) Message-ID: <646@arctic.nprdc.arpa> Date: 15 Jul 88 00:46:33 GMT References: <4927@husc6.harvard.edu> Sender: news@nprdc.arpa Reply-To: halff@nprdc.arpa (Henry Halff) Organization: Halff Resources, Inc. Lines: 16 In article <4927@husc6.harvard.edu> fry@huma1.UUCP (David Fry) writes: > >But today I saw the worst yet: is it really necessary to >distribute a Perfectionist DA that does nothing but change the >file attributes of TEXT files so they can be opened more simply >with Word Perfect? How many of us have Word Perfect, and how many >of those are transferring files from a PC often enough to warrant >such a program, which does something that can be done with Word >Perfect itself. At least two, the poster and me. It's really hard to judge the number of people that will pick up a posting, particularly after it has been passed around to many bulletin boards. I'm with the moderator on this one. Post 'em all. hh