Re: "Rich Text" or .rtf format.

[Robert Holmgren holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to note from Peter Brown  on Thu, 4 Jan
2001 15:29:25 -0500

Peter:

> Robert Holmgren wrote:>
>> [the [Hungarian] files] are definitively gone. Too bad. I hate
to say "I
>> told you so",
>> but "get while the getting is good" was a frequent mantra here.
>> Likewise the Netscape Nauseator spell-checkers in 27 languages,
which
>> are still free for the taking:

> Robert, I assume you mean that the spell-checkers are gone, too, but the
> last clause of your sentence implies that they might still be around.

Implies? How about DECLARES that they "are still free for the
taking"! ("Likewise" referred to "get while the getting is good".)

http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/asd-bin/doc/en_us/nsdicts/f-server.htm
 or
ftp://ftp.boulder.ibm.com/software/asd/nsdicts/en_us/

> Is this true?

Yes, it is.

> but now I find I may have put off the job and am the sorrier for it.

Serves you right. Or would have served you right. *Should* have
served you right.

> In fact [sic], though, there seems to be good news about the filters. I just
> checked the Technology Group web site and found what appears to be the
> entire list of the filters under "downloads".

Good heavens, Peter! The ENTIRE list? You mean, the same list that
has been sitting there for the last six years?

> The file sizes match the
> sizes that were listed in what (I think) was Robert's latest list of
> conversion filters (the "Hungarian" set).

Which "latest list" is that? Every reference to filters at XyWWWeb
meticulously points out the distinction between the earlier
XyQuest-distributed filters and the "Hungarian" filters. File sizes
don't match at all. Those are just the old filters that came with the
Xy4DOS/XyWin distributions dated 1992-3.

> Tech. Group apparently posted
> them, along with a lot of other stuff, on 11/17/00.

They just changed their website around on 11/17; these are old files.
Probably FTPed the files to a new directory. In fact, they don't even
administer or design their own website; some hack does it for them.

BTW, I've been meaning to ask, did you get your copy of SmartWords
yet? I thought... I mean, they did promise, didn't they?... end of
the week or thereabouts?

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Robert Holmgren
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