Xref: utzoo rec.arts.sf-lovers:58248 rec.arts.fine:275 comp.editors:3016 comp.text:8276 rec.arts.books:20916 rec.arts.poems:11535 bit.listserv.literary:573 alt.prose:987 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!csuvax1!sorensen From: sorensen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Peter Sorensen) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf-lovers,rec.arts.fine,comp.editors,comp.text,rec.arts.books,rec.arts.poems,bit.listserv.literary,alt.prose Subject: Re: What do writers want from a word processor? Message-ID: <1991Apr18.034401.20053@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au> Date: 18 Apr 91 03:44:01 GMT References: <1991Apr17.175001.8402@sjuphil.uucp> <1991Apr18.003213.11557@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Organization: Murdoch University Lines: 14 palmer@nntp-server.caltech.edu (David Palmer) writes: >For writers, a word processor should include >Do you sense a sort of trend to these features? It should be impossible >to lose text unless you throw all of your disks down a garbage >disposal. Surely This would be a terrible limitation for people plagued by children and ex-lovers while they are working. The garbage disposal is the most likely (most often) place your disks will end up. -- Peter Sorensen sorensen@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au Murdoch University South Street Murdoch, W.A. 6150, Australia.