Re: LaTeX / Metafont was Re: Arabic transliteration
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, November 19, 2002, 15:29 |
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On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 06:22:17AM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
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> Why? Simple. Word files are core dumps, that's why they can be saved
> and restored so fast, and why even Microsoft has trouble writing 100%
> converters from one version to another. When 1.0 loaded a core dump
> that worked with 2.0, it tried to operate with it and promptly GPFed,
> since the internal pointers made no sense.
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*Shudder*. And people think I'm extreme when I say that MS is the epitome
of bad software design.
T
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