[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [bug-miscfiles] Re: 'box' missing from web2?
From: |
Chris Morris |
Subject: |
Re: [bug-miscfiles] Re: 'box' missing from web2? |
Date: |
Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:56:52 -0800 |
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
- 'box' missing from web2?, Chris Morris, 2011/01/05
- Re: 'box' missing from web2?, Karl Berry, 2011/01/05
- Re: 'box' missing from web2?, pacman, 2011/01/06
- Re: 'box' missing from web2?, John Cowan, 2011/01/06
- Re: [bug-miscfiles] Re: 'box' missing from web2?, Behdad Esfahbod, 2011/01/06
- Re: [bug-miscfiles] Re: 'box' missing from web2?, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2011/01/06
- Re: [bug-miscfiles] Re: 'box' missing from web2?, John Cowan, 2011/01/06
- Re: [bug-miscfiles] Re: 'box' missing from web2?, Chris Morris, 2011/01/10
- Re: [bug-miscfiles] Re: 'box' missing from web2?, pacman, 2011/01/10
- Re: [bug-miscfiles] Re: 'box' missing from web2?,
Chris Morris <=
- Re: [bug-miscfiles] Re: 'box' missing from web2?, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2011/01/12
- Re: [bug-miscfiles] Re: 'box' missing from web2?, Charles Swiger, 2011/01/12
- Re: [bug-miscfiles] Re: 'box' missing from web2?, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2011/01/12