On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:40:02PM +0200, Pierre Riteau wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:28:27PM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:18:05PM +0200, Pierre Riteau wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:10:37PM +0200, Samo Jelovsek wrote:
> > > > On 24. 06. 2008 16:41, Marco Peereboom wrote:
> > > >>> Understood, but I wrote about functionality conciously: I would mean
> > > >>> "ability to write a letter" rather than OO.org.
> > > >>
> > > >> mg and vi come to mind...
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > Hm, I'm just curious how do you imagine writing a letter with vi or mg
> > > > (ok, i really don't know mg so well..). Don't understand this the wrong
> > > >
> > > > way I really want to know, because you maybe know something I don't.
> > > > I would consider using latex for writing a letter..
> > > >
> > > > Best regards,
> > > > Samo
> > > >
> > >
> > > As someone already said earlier, you can write your letter in troff
> > > with mg or vi and create a postscript file from that.
> >
> > One of the more important features of unix always has been document
> > processing and typesetting.
> >
> > -Otto
>
> Exactly. The first user of Unix besides the developers of the system
> was the Patent departement at Bell Labs, as early as 1971, to prepare
> patent applications (http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/hist.html).
Yes, of course doing a little research on a subject before posting is
beyond the capabilities of the common misc poster. I should become
grumpy, but alas, that name is already taken.
-Otto
