[USMA:10370] RE: Typing SI -Reply

2001-01-09 Thread Howard Ressel
Works in WordPerfect under the heading "QuickWords" it wont work under QuickCorrect because of the need to format the font. "Bill Potts" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/08/01 09:54pm Response to Stan Jakuba's .doc attachment. The same auto-correction approach can also be used with desktop publishing

[USMA:10372] 3.5 inch floppy disk

2001-01-09 Thread M R
Eventhough my computer's measurement system is set to Metric, the floppy disk in the windows explorer shows 3 1/2 inches floppy. Is it a rule that floppy disk should be shown only in inches. No idea how the rest of the World is coping it with. Will be better if it is called as 89 mm or 90 mm

[USMA:10375] RE: 3.5 inch floppy disk

2001-01-09 Thread Nat Hager III
OOOPS! Sorry it's a Win2000 feature, I just assumed it was the same on W98 (which I haven't used in a while. Nat Nat: I use W98 and it doesn't give me an option to rename it after right-clicking on it. Am I doing something wrong? Cheers, Nick It's really the reverse. It *IS* a 90mm

[USMA:10376] RE: 3.5 inch floppy disk

2001-01-09 Thread Leonardo Boselli
On 9 Jan 2001, at 13:30, Nat Hager III wrote: It's really the reverse. It *IS* a 90mm floppy by design, that was loosely translated to "3-1/2 floppy" for Amercian consumers. Unfortunately the name stuck. In english (but also in italian, not to say french) 3" are [phonetically] shorter than

[USMA:10379] RE: Fwd: RE: 3.5 inch floppy disk

2001-01-09 Thread Bill Potts
Actually, it's really a non-issue. These days, if you say "floppy drive" or "diskette drive," it's understood to be the 90 mm format. It's several years since the larger format was sold. A few months ago, I threw out a couple of hundred of the older, really floppy disks. And it's nearly two

[USMA:10380] Re: Fwd: RE: 3.5 inch floppy disk

2001-01-09 Thread Bruce Raup
On 2001-01-09 13:45 -0800, M R wrote: Hi Leonardo Whether you say it as "Three and half" (3 words) or "Three point five" (3 words), both are lengthier in inches than "ninety" (1 word) or "nine" (1 word) in mm and cm respectively. So both 90 mm and 9 cm are easy to use than inches.

[USMA:10381] Re: OWM Strategic Plan (fwd)

2001-01-09 Thread Gene Mechtly
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 08:24:26 -0500 From: Henry Oppermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gene Mechtly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OWM Strategic Plan Dear Gene, Thank you for your suggestions regarding our strategic plan. We will consider your

[USMA:10384] Re: Typing SI

2001-01-09 Thread Mike
For those who don't use M$ Word, here's a short text description of what is in this Word document. Oh, wait, I forgot. I don't (can't) use M$ Word. Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Name: