Re: putting escape characters in files

[Roger Burton West]

On or about Fri, May 11, 2001 at 11:37:20AM +0100, Struan Donald typed:

>but then any reasonably flexible multi-purpose device is always going
>to have a hard time being a consumer device as by it's nature it's
>complex and trying to make complex things appear simple is very very
>hard.

Yes.

Things like the Amstrad word-processor are what people really want.
(Just ask any secretary who was forced to "upgrade" from one to a PC.)

R