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From: "John Beamish" 

You might also have quoted Ralph Waldo Emerson:  a foolish consistency is the
hobgobblin of little minds!  (Not that I would necessarily agree with you in
this case.)

Along with Solitare there is, btw, no File/Edit/View in Hearts.  OTOH ...
Spider has (as do Hearts and Solitaire) a "Game" menu option and
in Spider one
of the Game menu items is "Save this game..." so a
counter-argument could be
made that while Spider doesn't have "File", the
"Save..." option appears under
a menu item that should have been named "File". 
"File", almost invariably, has
always had "new" and "Exit" (you'll find both those
under "Game").  Spider also
has "undo" (under "Game") while Word has
"undo" under "Edit".

IOW, I think this is one of those cases where the consistency isn't foolish
and, in the broader context, software is the better for it.

On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 22:08:43 -0500, Rich  wrote:

>    Solitare.  MSN Messenger.  Windows Media Player.  Yahoo! Messenger.
> AOL Instant Messenger.  That's five.
>
> Rich
>
>   "Geo."  wrote in message
news:4591cdd1{at}w3.nls.net...
>   "Rich"  wrote in message news:45900382{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>   >> Every program on earth does not have File Edit View but that is
> besides
>   >> the point.
>
>   Name one. Name one popular program on Mac, Linux, or Windows that
> doesn't
>   have File/Edit/View.
>
>   Geo.

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