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echo: locuser
to: Paul Edwards
from: Rod Speed
date: 1996-06-26 07:58:16
subject: Funny characters

PE> Where can I FREQ it from?  If it's not
PE> FREQable, it's vaporware, just like OS/2 4.0.

FM> Interesting definition of "vapourware", on that
FM> basis Corel Draw is vapourware - you can't freq that.

PE> Or buy it in a shop.

FM> What about the latest program you or your colleagues wrote at work?

PE> Yes.  If you have a problem, and I respond with "CVCHG fixes that",

Massive faking, clearly its not vaporware.

PE> oh, BTW, you can't get a copy of CVCHG, then it is vaporware.

Soorree, aint so.

PE> It is not a solution to the given problem.

Thats not what the word vaporware means. There is plenty of software
thats not a solution to a given problem, even software thats FREQable.

PE> I can't tell you that CVCHG is better than Norton's Utilities, because
PE> the former is not available as a solution to the general problem.

Yes.

PE> It is vaporware.

Nope, you just have a completely silly definition of vaporware.
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