On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Vadim Vygonets wrote:
> Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, Mar 04, 2003:
> > You remind me what I knew about using Windows before I arrived to my
> > current workplace. Outlook is not just a mail client but a (convenient!
> > IMHO) address book + calendar + notes + mail organizer. You can say they
> > don't belong together but the fact is that the integration is VERY
> > convenient.
>
> Seen it. Not so convenient, and *really* doesn't belong
> together. Nor do I see the point of having a mailer inside your
> browser.
This is a work around a *problem* of the system/UI.
On my systemm I simply:
cat file [|possible pipe] | {mail|mutt} whatever
cat file [|possible pipe] | lpr
Mozilla, Explorer, and such are limited. They can't easily pipe their
output. So they need to be bloated with all that functionality.
They need all that functionality embedded inside them.
>
> > I think you are mixing Outlook Express with Outlook.
>
> Maybe.
>
> > > Why are people so obsessed with spreadsheets? What do you use
> > > them for?
Spreadsheets allow you to deal with *lots* of data.
Unix scripts tend to be line-oriented, or record-oriented.
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Tzafrir Cohen
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