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echo: 4dos
to: JONI EYAL
from: VINOD UNNY
date: 1998-04-25 20:37:00
subject: A Wish for 4DOS

 -=> Quoting Joni Eyal to Vinod Unny <=-
 
 VU> Here's a small wish i have for an enhancement in 4DOS. The LIST command
 VU> should be able to read different file formats like 
 VU> Work 95/97,Excel 95/97, HTML and a couple of others popular ones (with 
or without formatting
 VU> preserved).
 JE> This could only be implemented in the TakeCommand 
 JE> processors, and not in the 4DOS series. By why should 4DOS 
 JE> support Windows's documents? Buy Office...
Why not? If i boot into 4DOs, like i frequently do, but i wanto read a DOC
file, then i need to go back to 95. And for 95 i don't need TC32. I have
Quick View Plus.
 
 VU> LIST should aslo allow us to save any of these files to plain text
 VU> format, with extraneous tags/formatting removed.
 JE> It's a viewer, not and editor. If you want an editor, use 
I said "SAVE", not "EDIT". So if i open a HTML file it shows me the complete
text and allows me save the text w/o the tags to .txt file. Similarly
with .xls or .doc files. In fact there are DOS viewers that allow it. I wish
they were built into 4DOS.
 JE> an editor. Don't look for an editor in a command
 JE> processor...
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