>>Why anybody in this day an age would CHOOSE DOS anything is beyond me.<<
Eric, That wasn't the point. I don't know anyone who would choose a DOS product - aren't we all converting to R:Base windows???? The point was that there were a lot of fine products out there in the past - everything Microsoft does is not gold (not to take anything away from many of the great things they have done.....). Look at the first iterations of Access for example. Until they bought FoxPro, and stole one of Microrim's best, this was a slow, buggy product. Word may be awesome now, but WP is still easier to use, basically because of reveal codes feature. Bob "Eric Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 07/23/2003 11:24:17 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (RBASE-L Mailing List) cc: (bcc: Bob Castanaro/BCH) Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Off topic Word is an AWESOME word processor. People whine and complain because they don't know how to use it. Word is extremely feature bloated. There's just way too much functionality for the commoner to use. I don't claim to be a Word pro, but I definitely can appreciate the amount of functionality they've packed into that app over the years. Yer talking about WP 6.0. I remember when that came out. That program was 'moderately' ok, but the graphical mode always screwed up the video. Why anybody in this day an age would CHOOSE DOS anything is beyond me. Eric Peterson IT Manager QMI Security Solutions -----Original Message----- From: Bob Castanaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 10:14 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Off topic >>That's like say you prefer to break bread with your hands rather than using a knife.<< I don't know about that. Actually, I had some of the later versions of WP for DOS that had a graphical interface, used TruType fonts, and had features galore, including inserting and manipulating many types of graphic formats. maybe I am nostalgic a bit, but all this worked in 16 mb or less RAM, and was stable as hell. You could switch back and forth from a DOS look to a graphical one. Backwards compatibility was fantastic. Interestingly enough, there are many professional transcriptionists that still prefer WP over Word, especailly since they have medical and legal versions. Too bad when Novell bought them, they let the whole thing wither while Word took over - the WP support was the best ever (except for RBase, of course!) - they had a Disc jockey that played music and told you how many people in the queue and approximately how long it would take to get to your call every two minutes or so. Way too cool. Besides, Emily Post insists that one break bread with your hands..... That's like say you prefer to break bread with your hands rather than using a knife. Eric Peterson IT Manager QMI Security Solutions -----Original Message----- From: Bernie Corrigan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 1:41 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Off topic >And WordPerfect still has "reveal codes", the best feature ever in a word >processor. Too bad Novell has no clue how to market itself..... WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS (circa 1990) is in many ways a better wordprocessing program than any version of M$ Word.
