Hi, Bob.

BL>  BL> It's odd that some people run OS/2 very well, and then suddenly
BL>  BL> lose it.

BL>  FM> Your punctuation is at fault. You should have said...

BL>   I'll be more careful. In future. too.



BL>  FM> I actually ran the "original" Windows - 2.something (I don't
BL>  FM> know if there was a 1.x).

BL>   Jeeze! What a thrill seeker.

Yeah, but I had to.

BL>  BL> I don't like Word 2 all that much either, but at least I'm used
BL>  BL> to it. That was the reason I started to learn

BL>  FM> I like it, it does everything I want reasonably easily and
BL>  FM> quickly.

BL>   It's got a few little quirks. What you see on screen is not always
BL> what you get whne you print (or FAX) it, and its style sheets are a

Maybe not in Page Layout mode, but I think it's OK in Print Preview. The
problem I have is something slightly different between the one at home
and at work - a document formatted exactly as I want it on one might
have the last line flow onto the next page on the other

BL> bit of a drag (it's easier to copy the whole document and edit it) and

I don't use style sheets, never really got around to learning about
them.

BL> it you add a few OLEs the file grows in size frighteningly... but I
BL> don't know a better one.

Yeah, my oil float information document is over 600k, because it's got a
bitmap in there of the map of where we'll be drilling.

BL>  FM> The bells & whistles in Word 6 clutter and complicate it (IMHO)
BL>  FM> for no added functionality, and some of the things I want to do
BL>  FM> seem to have disappeared - they're certainly not in the menus
BL>  FM> where they used to be.

BL>   (grin) I even cut the bells and whistles out of Word2.

Oh? How?

BL>  BL> programming this time... to write a proper, small,
BL>  BL> wordprocessor.

BL>  FM> Yeah, what happened to that project? :-)

BL>   Delphi. It's almost trivial to do it now...

If you want < than 32k documents you could use a TMemo, more than that
it's a bit harder. Plus if you want to put in graphics, formatting, etc.

BL>  FM> Rosie started uni on Tuesday

BL>  BL> Jeeze... what happened to Xmas? What course is she doing?

BL>  FM> Bachelor of Accounting at UTS. It's a "fast-track" course so
BL>  FM> everything is squashed into 2-1/2 years, hence the early start.
BL>  FM> It still takes 3 years to complete though, because they get to
BL>  FM> spend 2*3 months or so actually working in one of the firms
BL>  FM> who've sponsored her scholarship.

BL>   Very nice and practical. Good stuff. For a horrible moment I thought
BL> you'd say Arts at Sydney Uni!

BL>   I don't think I'd like to be a kid now, trying to decide a future.
BL> Even Medicine is changing! If you look 20 years ahead it's impossible
BL> to see. Do we end up the brains-trust feeding the industrial giant of
BL> China, or food-peasants feeding Asia, a nation taking in each other's
BL> washing in the service industries, or what?

But I don't think that's much different from then. I did science and
engineering but became a banker and now stockbroker. Hardly relevant
skills. The post-grad Comp Sci. I did was probably useful though, when I
was a programmer.

BL>   A nice example is my ulcers. I had them "cured" in 1983
by giving up
BL> smoking and food, eating everything I don't like with Mylanta and
BL> rice... but when they hit me with the anticoagulants they flared
BL> again. I saw the specialist on Tuesday, and he turns out to be a
BL> disciple of the one who did me the last time, but times have changed.
BL> Instead of being a real big deal with lots of continuing business and
BL> an entire department... they cure ulcers forever now. You get a breath
BL> test, a bottle of yoghurt, and ta ta ulcers. The local GP could do it,
BL> and probably will.

I thought I'd heard that they've discovered that it's a bacteria that
causes ulcers. Where do the breath test and yoghurt come in?

Regards, fIM.

 * * If you wake up Sleepy & Grumpy, you must be Snow White.
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