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

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

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

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

  Jeeze! What a thrill seeker.

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

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

  It's got a few little quirks. What you see on screen is not always
what you get whne you print (or FAX) it, and its style sheets are a
bit of a drag (it's easier to copy the whole document and edit it) and
it you add a few OLEs the file grows in size frighteningly... but I
don't know a better one. 

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

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

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

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

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

 FM> Rosie started uni on Tuesday

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

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

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

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

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

Regards,
Bob
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