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From: derosa@motcid.UUCP (John DeRosa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Open Letter to an MS-DOS User
Message-ID: <6078@crystal9.UUCP>
Date: 26 Mar 91 19:01:28 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Div., Arlington Heights, IL
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Subject: Re: Windows 3.0 & ATM 1.0 problem
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.lang.postscript

In comp.lang.postscript you write:

>I just finished the installation of the ATM (I checked the atm.txt
>file said it is 1.0 although it cam with the Times New Roman and Gill
>Sans fonts) that came with Pagemaker 4.0 along with the ~100 fonts
>from cica.cica.indiana.edu (pub/pc/win3/fonts). Boy was it a pain in
>the butt to modify the win.ini file to support automatic downloading
>of those additional fonts.

I know that you don't want to hear this but.....you are obviously
a talented computer professional that finds modification of the 
init and configuration files in the MS-DOS world a "pain in the
butt".  I was in your same place a year ago or so, forever fighting
to get my MS-DOS machine to do what I wanted it to do.

I finally did the right thing and bought a different computer.

ATM on this computer only required placing the necessary files
in a single directory and rebooting the computer.  I have 40
adobe font families and they all work just fine together.  ALL
of my programs can (without any reconfiguration) utilize
all these fonts.  Life is good and it was so easy.

Of couse on this computer system changing many things like this,
printer drivers, fonts, accessories, and other pieces of 
auto loading software is just as easy.  Just copy it from 
the floppy to the hard disk and, voila, any and all applications
can gain access to these common resources.  COMMON RESOURCES,
this appears to be the most efficient way for computers
to operate.  

MicroSoft Windows is heading that way....but only if you
have the updated programs....and the latest system...now
that will mean how much money?....where do these files need
to be?.....what was the name of that path?....christ, I
misspelled it again...oh, and about the config.sys...or was
it the exec.bat....or win.ini....hell, never mind......you need 
to have a degree in CS to get a handle on this thing.....
need a bigger hard drive....what type of controller is it?
.....must partition it.....3-1/2", shit I need 5-1/4"...
..THIS is the computer for the masses?.....rm *.*..
....damn.....the file name is docsub12.txt....what was
in that again?......8 characters only file names are
a "pain in the butt"....

Can you guess the name of my computer system?  Remember 
that you are a computer professional, don't go off 
and start flaming, treat this as a professional discussion.
-- 
=       John DeRosa, Motorola, Inc, Cellular Infrastructure Group          =
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