On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 21:28, you wrote: > <RANT hEaDer t='37.5' s='not enough" m=''taken' e="IMBEDED" > SuckEggFactor="Transfer to Grandma"> > Dear Mr Rout, > > Thank you for your kind comments this afternoon. > > Kindest regards > > Donald J Gould > Researcher - bowenvale.co.nz > </R>
Bugger I sent this direct to Don by mistake, thereby effectively doing what i asked him not to do. Sorry Don :-) Don. I'm not sure what you are ranting about, or how sincere your thanks are (given the rant wrapper). It is polite to quote what you are commenting to, snipping out the irrelevancies. However please do not copy list messages direct to me, I only end up with an extra unnecessary copy. I see your comment to Mike about VB and its relationship to your outlook experience. In *nix you will find a different approach. small tools, each with a function, rather than a multi-functional all-encompassing, jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none approach like outlook/office/vb. In other words if you want to process an email or an appointment or an address or a wordprocessing document through a script, you pipe it to the appropriate tool, and you choose that tool - scripting languages like bash, zsh, perl, python, ruby: lesser but equally important tools like grep, awk, sed, and many more. You are not restricted to one tool. You chain stuff together through pipes and redirection. This is helped by the open nature of not only the tools, but also the file formats. cat rant > /dev/null. regards, Nick. PS do you actually run linux yet? If not lets get you up and running so you can play with these wonderful tools.
