Re: putting escape characters in files

[Roger Burton West]

On or about Fri, May 11, 2001 at 11:32:33AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson typed:
>Roger Burton West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> ObRant: computers and OSes in their current state are not consumer devices.
>> They're not sufficiently reliable or intuitive. Bad marketing has made
>> people think they need the things; most of them are wrong...
>OK, so what does it take?

While "using a computer" is a skill considered harder than "using a
washing machine" or "mowing a lawn", they're not ready.

Putting pretty interfaces on existing unstable systems does not
help to make them simpler...

R