[Info-vax] OT: Rob Short: Operating System Evolution

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In article <iEJ0n.14294$U5.217867 at newsb.telia.net>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan-Erik_S=F6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>> In article <7qgsuoFcd5U2 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>>> In article <00A97168.66C892A0 at sendspamhere.org>,
>>> 	VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
>>>> In article <hhv1b3$2sn$02$2 at news.t-online.com>, Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> writes:
>>>>> VAXman- schrieb:
>>>>>> In article <4b4138f2$0$269$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 03-01-2010 19:36, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Arne Vajh?j wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 03-01-2010 05:13, Michael Kraemer wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Arne Vajh?j schrieb:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> And MS supply free readers for doc/xls/ppt as well.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> And they have publicized their formats as well, so
>>>>>>>>>>> other can implement them.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> So the difference is ??
>>>>>>>>>> that M$ didn't do this until their monopoly
>>>>>>>>>> was completed. About fifteen years ago
>>>>>>>>>> you'd had a hard time to view those proprietary
>>>>>>>>>> formats properly on anything different than M$ Windoze+office.
>>>>>>>>> True. But you would have the same problems with Lotus, WordPerfect
>>>>>>>>> etc. products.
>>>>>>>> ISTR that there was/is WordPerfect for VMS. I'm quite certain that it
>>>>>>>> was available about ten years ago. I'm not sure about now.
>>>>>>> More like 15-20 years ago.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and still available.
>>>>>>
>>>>> for VMS (and UNIX) or just for M$ OS?
>>>> Visit: http://www.ProvN.com/
>>> Did you?
>>>
>>> The first two are not links and the second two are dead links.
>> 
>> ???  
>> 
>> First two what? And second two what?  I posted one URL.
>> 
>
>The WordPerfect links on "http://www.provn.com/main.html"
>are not the same as on "http://www.provn.com/Products/products.htm".
>
>The difference is minor but enough to make the links on the
>"main" page to not function properly.

OK.  Bill's post wasn't clear.  All I posted was a URL.


>On "http://www.provn.com/main.html" :
>
>http://www.provn.com/products/wp53.pdf
>http://www.provn.com/products/wp71.pdf
>
>On "http://www.provn.com/Products/products.htm" :
>
>http://www.provn.com/Products/wp53.pdf
>http://www.provn.com/Products/wp71.pdf
>
>Note the uppercase "P" in the latter case...
>
>Now, it wasn't *THAT* hard for either you or Bill to
>see that, so this thread is a joke...
>
>Finaly, the fact that noone has fixed the links on the "main" page
>probably tells everything about the interest in the product...

OK.  The links are working.  

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