Re: [bug-miscfiles] Re: 'box' missing from web2?

[Chris Morris]

Fantastic!  This made me laugh.

Perhaps I should file a bug report with Mac OS.

Thanks again.

--Chris

On Jan 10, 2011, at 1:53 PM, address@hidden wrote:

> Chris Morris writes:
>> 
>> Thank you guys for keeping me in the loop on this.  It is fun reading =
>> the discussions.  I couldn't believe that 'box' was missing (not to =
>> mention all of the others) and that this was "news". =20
>> 
>> I am glad that I said something.
> 
> Most surprising for me was that MacOS is using a word list from GNU (and/or
> BSD). They should have a better one they can drop in after all these years.
> 
> They're the ones who've been selling machines to professional writers to do
> "word processing". We're the guys who couldn't spell "creat". We just have a
> word list so we can cheat at crossword puzzles with grep. We don't know what
> word processing is, but we're sure it's a subset of what vi and emacs do.
> 
> And they're trusting our word list? It should be the other way around.
> 
> -- 
> Alan Curry