[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

[AEF]

On Dec 27, 8:56 pm, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net>
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> On 12/27/2011 7:48 PM, AEF wrote:
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> > On Dec 27, 1:13 pm, Kenneth Fairfield<ken.fairfi... at gmail.com>  wrote:
> >> On Monday, December 26, 2011 11:59:51 PM UTC-8, Paul Sture wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:12:32 -0800, AEF wrote:
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> >>>> On Dec 24, 9:33 am, Paul Sture
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> >>>>> On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:55:48 -0800, Kenneth Fairfield wrote:
> >>>>>> Sorry for all the typos&  wrong word errors in my last two posts in
> >>>>>> spite of attempts to proof read before posting.  I *hate* web text
> >>>>>> forms (I'm constrained...don't ask)!
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> >>>>> Each paragraph is coming out as one line in your posts.  As AEF
> >>>>> suggests, you could use another editor and copy/paste the results into
> >>>>> the form.
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> >>>>> I don't like Notepad, but it was still better at giving me the format I
> >>>>> wanted than Outlook, where I was similarly constrained.
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> >>>> I'm told by co-workers that Notepad++ is very good. I never had the
> >>>> opportunity to try it. YMMV. UAAR.
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> >>> Except Ken says he is "constrained". That could mean is stuck on a
> >>> corporate PC where he cannot add programs of choice.
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> >> Precisely.  Well, FF allows me to load add-ons that
> >> will make some of this go better (I hope!).
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> >> As Paul surmised, my corporate PC is behind a corporate
> >> firewall which is hosted on a Windows server and
> >> examines all http and https requests, blocking
> >> "inappropriate" sites, etc.  As a result, I can't use
> >> Thunderbird over port 80 to, e.g., news.individual.net,
> >> since the conversation with the news server isn't
> >> proper html.  (I've tried, never found the magic set
> >> of keys before giving up...)
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> >> I'll put in some extra effort and attempt to keep
> >> my posts legible.
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> >>     Thanks for the feedback, Ken
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> >> P.S. And neither Wordpad nor Notepad has an embedded
> >>       spell-checker as far as I can tell.
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> > Nope. That's why it's best if you can get Outlook to work.
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> >> P.P.S. UAAR?  Couldn't find a meaning that matched the
> >>         context.
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> > UAAR: User assumes all risk. I suppose I could have done UAYOR
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> Please avoid acronyms and abbreviations that will not be instantly
> clear to all!
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> When in doubt, spell it out!

Well, it was tough for me at first interpreting many of these acronyms
years ago. I sometimes actually asked.

Besides, what fun is it if you give it away?

Now if I had written IWRATFF!, then you would have a case. Yes, this
actually means something: I was right about the fifth force! BTW,
IWRTNHM, also (I was right that neutrinos have mass, also).

AEF