John Haumann writes: >Just to emphasize Kyle's point... > >Back when I first got my Bondi iMac, I connected it with a crossover >ethernet cable to my Performa 6220. I was using the iMac and received >an e-mail with a WordPerfect document attached. I absent-mindedly >double clicked on the document to open it before it occurred to me that >WordPerfect was on the Performa, but had not been loaded onto the iMac >yet. As I was scolding myself for the oversight, I noticed that >WordPerfect had launched and that the document was open in front of me.
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