Using Thunderbird for Usenet

[BillW50]

Well I say this from what I have been reading in the Microsoft newsgroups since over a year ago. That Microsoft got out of the email and newsgroup business and they don't support either one anymore. They still offer WLM though if you want to download it.

Really? I must have done something wrong. Can you get the RSS in the same window too?

Oh yeah! That one really spoils you a lot. Take that one away and it really hurts.

OE-QuoteFix does a lot of nifty things. But one that I really like which it seems is undocumented. As say there is a quote that is just so badly messed up that OE-QuoteFix couldn't even fix. Well you can manually or copy and paste into a word processor or something. Strip all quotes after the first line. And strip off all return characters until the end of the paragraph. And it is okay, OE-QuoteFix will rebuild everything and make it right again when you send it out.

No other newsgroup reader works as nice as OE-QuoteFix does. I am so surprised they just don't bother.

Yes! Very good point! Gary Kildall was asked why doesn't he make CP/M easier to use? He replied back saying any half wit could learn CP/M. And he was right of course. But even half wits rather use MS-DOS because it was so much easier.

[dennis]

I don't know as I don't use it for RSS. I would imagine you can add them to the quick views pane if nothing else.

[BillW50]

Well okay, it seems something pretty strange to do. But I could get used to it I guess.

Yes well what can I say.

Perhaps! I always have this feeling that Microsoft knows a lot of things that they can use to get inside of your computer. And I also have a feeling that Microsoft used this and disclosed some of them to the Justice Department to get them to back off. I dunno! Just a gut feeling.

And GEOS had used headers in front of the files, programs.

Actually there was 5 in CBM-DOS v10. DOS was in each floppy drive (in ROM) and not in the computer itself. So depending on the floppy drives, you could have many CBM-DOS running at the same time.

I am going by failing memory, but I believe the popular ones were CBM v2.6 (single sided 5 1/4 drive), CBM-DOS v3.x (double sided 5 1/4 drives) and CBM-DOS v10 (3 1/2 drives).

That 5th one on v10 was really odd. I believe it was called CBM type. I think Commodore called it a partition, but it acted like both a partition and a subdirectory. As it was listed in the directory as a folder. And you could open it like a folder. But creating it you had to state the size of it. Not by sector, but by whole tracks I believe.

Yes you can go that route too if you would like. ;-)

Yes all very nice.

[BillW50]

Well I didn't know. Something else to check out. ;-)

[Tony Bryer]

Have you read Raymond Chen's 'The Old New Thing' - some of the stories he recounts about things done at MS to keep badly behaved programs working on newer versions of DOS/Windows are amazing.

[Tony Bryer]

Having been a Lotus WordPro user since it first came out, I struggle with Word every time I am forced to use it. But I think I may yet have to: WordPro runs on Windows 7 but every time an warning dialog appears first. If MS spent millions on usability studies for Word, I have failed to notice their effect.

[The Natural Philosopher]

that's because although they did the studies, they followed the results of the second study 'What features make this software look complicated, expensive, impressive and impenetrable, and therefore worth what we want to charge' instead.

[BillW50]

[BillW50]

I don't know, I always thought Word was easy. WordStar was the word processor that was the hardest for me to learn. Although the nice thing about WordStar, all your efforts were well worth it. Many writers used it. Even Bill Gates wrote code with it.

[Dave]

You are like me, I was brought up on Lotus software, as I have brought up my wife the same way. Being Canadian, it blends in with my way of thinking, where as word is alien to me.

Will I bend and move to word? It will be a cold week in hell before I do.

Dave

[Tony Bryer]

On PCs I started with a word processor called Arnor Protext of which I remember nothing, then switched to WordStar because all the key shortcuts were the same as in the Borland Turbo editors (Borland copied the WS ones of course). I still use some of the shortcuts in Delphi.