[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

Paul Sture paul at sture.ch
Wed Dec 28 09:55:58 EST 2011


On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 08:56:50 -0800, Kenneth Fairfield wrote:

> On Friday, December 23, 2011 7:13:13 PM UTC-8, AEF wrote:
>> On Dec 22, 2:55 pm, Kenneth Fairfield <ken.fa... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Sorry for all the typos & wrong word errors in my last two posts in
>> > spite of attempts to proof read beofre posting.  I *hate* web text
>> > forms (I'm constrained...don't ask)!
> 
>> Can you type your post in your favorite editor and then copy and paste
>> it to your awful web form? That's what i do.
> 
> Yeah, I may be forced to do that.  It's really best to let the news
> reader (GG in this case) handle the reply so that text gets "quoted",
> etc.

Fire up a reply and copy that? Yeah, another step I know...

> This one I'm doing with cut and paste into Wordpad.  Someone will need
> to let me know (if you care) whether this is readable in a "real" news
> reader with fixed width fonts, etc.  If it is, I'll switch my FF addon
> editor to use Wordpad instead of Notepad.
> 

It reads fine here, both with Pan on Linux and MT-Newswatcher on OS X.


-- 
Paul Sture



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