Czes'c', Miles!

26 Mar 05 06:15, you -> me:

ARS>> And RITLabs called Clipboard a "pocket"
ARS>> in Russian. :-\

MM> One of our food makers is famous in NZ for making small tins of
MM> baby-food,  but lost heaps of money when they first tried
MM> exporting them to the Pacific Islands.  It seems that the

Aha, I heard of that. :-)

ARS>> Programmers usually are not help writers... :-(

MM> Heh, heh ... you mean, like explaining the obvious to ... people ?

Yep... Even Microsoft doesn't write good help.
Linux seems to have help for everything (at least, it exists somewhere),
but who will understand it from the second time?
And if you write a really little program for yourself, you won't write any
documentation but maybe a list of command-line switches. ;-) Then you see
that people liked it... but you don't like it yourself, and nobody writes a
documentation...
As for big programs, you don't need documentation, and if you are writing
it, you have no time to write the program, so ...
And anyway, I guess, only really professional programmers would be able to
use "mundane" words in documentation... But then they don't have
time to write documentation at all.
Damn, I guess there are some dupe sentences in this. ;-)

MM>> You'd expect that in open source programmes,  but not in `simple'
MM>> utilities like my favourite text editor,  VDE.   It works in
MM>> plain text like Notepad ... but will strip the meat out of a Word
MM>> document without blinking and leave the edited text ready for use
MM>> in Word again....   marvellous hidden talent!
ARS>> Do you mean it saves formatting pretty well when pasted from
ARS>> Word?

MM> No...  when you command it to "VDE filename.doc /M", it strips off
MM> all the flamboyant formatting and delivers an ASCII version of the
MM> contents - bloody marvellously !!!

Ah. I use Word itself to save into text. I wouldn't have to use
"wrapping" if Far viewer supported shorter-line wrapping... I
mean, using some 60-70 columns for viewing, while the window is 120 or so.

MM> Are you having an Easter Holiday this weekend ?  If so, enjoy your
MM> chocolate Easter Eggs !!

Thanks. You too. :-) I'm not sure I have, though. Maybe it is shifted a
week. ;) And what are the "chocolate Easter Eggs"? Never saw
such. ;-) Just usual colored eggs.

Hej hej!
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