Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!rex!ames!bionet!agate!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: (none) Message-ID: <8907290227.aa01933@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 29 Jul 89 07:20:31 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 29 >Well, Scott, you are right; I like WYSIWYG... But I like to be able to >GET what I see. It's really nice to see the text on the screen; if I >print it however, it doesn't look that nice anymore. I'm using a NEC When is WYSIWYG not WYSIWYG? What You See Is What You Get, except apparently you don't (always? sometimes? because you didn't buy an Apple brand printer?) I do NOT like WYSIWYG word processors because the files they produce are not amenable to tranferring (to a coauthor in, say, Florida). Host computers (especially those made by IBM which takes 'virtual punch cards' so literally that the 'virtual' punch can't accept records of more than 80 columns) get serious indigestion when confronted with WYSIWYG files (yes there ARE ways to fool it, but try explaining how to convert and unconvert to your significant other and you'll find why most coauthors won't put up with it). Give me a fast, full-featured (line oriented) editor and a powerful, well-thought out text formatter anytime (but then I'm a "command driven" old fossil bound to end my days sending email from an exhibit in the Smithsonian). Murph Sewall Vaporware? ---> [Gary Larson returns 1/1/90] Prof. of Marketing Sewall@UConnVM.BITNET Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu [INTERNET] U of Connecticut {psuvax1 or mcvax }!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP] (203) 486-5246 [FAX] (203) 486-2489 [PHONE] 41 49N 72 15W [ICBM] -+- I don't speak for my employer, though I frequently wish that I could (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited)