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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: What constitutes a good OS?
Message-ID: <1991Jan17.004729.5517@kithrup.COM>
Date: 17 Jan 91 00:47:29 GMT
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In article <41902@nigel.ee.udel.edu> new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) writes:
>The ability to change a file without invalidating all the hardcopies
>you may have of the file.  The same problem leads documentors to
>include "this page intentionally left blank" so all indexes don't
>have to be changed every time a page is inserted.  

Gee, most documentors I've seen (myself included, at one point in the
not-so-distant past) used blank pages because chapters should begin on
odd-number pages.  I have never seen an odd-numbered page marked, 'This page
intentionally left blank.'  Anyone who has done so is being very stupid.

>*I* have used
>both and *I* prefer line numbers. I never missed line numbers in
>a system where I would never look at a hardcopy (like Smalltalk).

*I* have used both, and *I* prefer simple bytestreams.

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