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   Message 368 of 3,070   
   August Abolins to Martin Foster   
   OpenXP, SemPoint   
   18 Mar 19 19:06:50   
   
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   Hello Martin,   
      
    MF> 17.03.19 8:56:00, Kurt Weiske wrote to Martin Foster:   
      
    KW>> ..it seemed weird reading mail in a GUI and using Notepad to   
    KW>> edit replies...   
      
    MF> It still does seem weird reading mail in a GUI and it probably always   
    MF> will, simply because I was brought up on DOS. Can't beat plain ASCII text   
      
      
   As a pre-Windows days programmer working in mono-spacing editors all day,   
   suddenly using a proportional-spacing editor and the option to change a font   
   style, felt weird, indeed.   
      
   But NOW, proportional spacing (courtesy of gui interfaces) seems best for   
   conversational content.   
      
      
      
      
   ../|ug   
      
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