On Tuesday 26 July 2005 03:54, Michael Z Daryabeygi wrote: > Anders Breindahl wrote: > > Have you tried `less`? > > Why are you picking on (perceived?) newbies? That's not funny. > I'm pretty sure he needs more functionality than that. > And I know from his other thread that he is doing his best to get away > from M$, so we should genuinely try to help him. I am sorry, that you read it as me picking on newbies. That was not my intention; I merely (attempted unarrogantly) tried to state the not-always obvious. I am also sorry to announce, that I am one of those, who will be ``jumping down peoples' throats'' in the case of not keeping to the net-etiquette. It really makes it less satisfying to be a part of the community. I suppose I don't belong on -user with this standpoint; but as it seems like the only place in Debian I may be of service, I stick around, keeping my annoyance to myself (mostly, that is). In defence of my post, though: It is my experience, that the Windows-community uses cleartext files more often than one assumes. (Opposite to arbitrary binary formats). Often I have been able to extract the information I needed by treating the files as cleartext. I am also convinced, that no one would want to run a Windows-only IDE on a GNU/Linux machine -- and I therefore assumed that Rajiv only wanted to do the ``extracting information''-part, and therefore could cope with `less`. > Project is a beast that I am afraid to learn. But I would be interested > to know if anyone has tried it in wine. Not that I have the ability to command such development forces -- but wouldn't creating a Microsoft-compatible program be a misallocation of Free Software development ressources? The trouble about .doc seems to prove that to me: The more we want a a FS-alternative to a Microsoft program, the harder they will make it to develop? Regards, Anders Breindahl.
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