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From: tody@noao.edu (Doug Tody  CCS)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: A/UX 3rd party product list
Message-ID: <1990Aug23.073331.282@noao.edu>
Date: 23 Aug 90 07:33:31 GMT
References: <44186@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ, USA
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From article <44186@apple.Apple.COM>, by mgchow@Apple.COM (Mike Chow):
> In article <33093@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
>>brooks@Apple.COM (Kevin Brooks) in <44145@apple.Apple.COM> writes:
>>
>>	I've just put a copy of the latest supported 3rd party products listing
>>	on the A/UX info/update server.  Its broken down by application type
>>	and its actually getting preety large.  Its stored in a binhex stuffit
>>	format archive, once you unwrap it should be a nicely formatted MS Word
>>	4.0 doc.
>>
> I think you're being unfair here with comments like this.  My guess is that
> somebody at Apple produced this document and just happened to be using MS
> Word 4.0, and that was the easiest way to put that information on the server.

You are probably right that the guy was being unfair - but I have to
second the point made.  I guess I will have to deal with binhex stuffit
since this seems to be a thoroughly intrenched Mac-ism (and unix versions
of the necessary tools are available) but MS word 4.0 is not likely to
appear on my machine.  Probably the files could be read without it, but
they certainly would not be nicely formatted!

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