Tony Bryer wrote:

On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 20:39:07 +0000 Owain wrote :

tony sayer wrote:

I feel much the same way about Win ME.

Now that was about the worst bit of software that Microsoft wrote!...

No, that was edlin ;-)


In my early days of selling software I resold an American shareware
database manager, Zephyr, and brilliant it was too. But it needed the
line FILES=40 inserted into CONFIG.SYS and at that time most users had
nothing but edlin. So the routine, which I had off pat, was to say "don't
ask questions, just do EXACTLY what I say: C:, cd \, edlin config.sys, l,
.."

Around that time there was a prog called PFedit. I used that quite a lot
for editing config.sys and autoexec.bat. Very much easier to use that edlin.

For word processing I use Lotus WordPro, not updated for a good few years
but still a great bit of work. Having also used Word 2003 a bit, I could
not believe how poor it was - this is not just a case being unfamiliar
with it, rather that so much has to be done through modal dialogs instead
of WordPro's right-click interactive properties mode of working.

I think Word Pro is so much better than anything that came out of
Seattle is because it was written by ex Brits :-)

Like you, both my wife and I use Word Pro for all of our writing
requirements. So much more intuitive.

Dave