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View Poll Results: What is your favorite editor?
vi ( or a clone thereof ) 27 77.14%
emacs 3 8.57%
notepad.exe 3 8.57%
Other visual editor (In a GUI environment) 2 5.71%
Other 0 0%
ed / ex 0 0%
edlin.exe 0 0%
pico 0 0%
Voters: 35. This poll is closed

 
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Old 02-04-2002
With regard to the sidebar on MSWORD and the news article, here is my reply, as requested:

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It is not important what I think, what is important is what the people whom I communicate (and work with) think and use. I must communicate in formats that they use in their business operations. For most large companies, that means: MSWORD, ASCII, ASCII/HTML, POWERPOINT, EXCEL, PDF, FLASH. Most of these formats are vendor proprietary and they all are 'de facto' standards in the business world. I don't dictate to people how to commuicate, I accept and create communications in their format because the goal is to [I] communicate[I]. I don't think it is wise to allow personal bias to stand in the way of communications.
I'm not a supporter of (IT) religious wars and jihads either and don't find any userfulness in them. Bashing products and companies has little value. If two people want to communicate using the "foo" format, then that is their choice, freedom and right. Cooperation is based on mutual gain. Obviously applications like MSWORD, PPT, and XLS have a broad base of users who like to use them.... they do have a choice, many choices.
 
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overchan

OVERCHAN(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       OVERCHAN(8)

NAME

       overchan - update the news overview database

SYNOPSIS

       overchan [ - | file ]

DESCRIPTION

       Overchan  reads	article  data  from files or standard input if none are specified.  (A single dash in the file list means to read standard
       input.)	It uses this information to update the news overview database.	Overchan was originally designed to be used by InterNetNews or the
       C News ``mkov'' packages to update the database as the articles come in.  For current inn, the database is stored by overview method.  This
       can be done within innd(8) but, still overchan(8) can do this, if <useoverchan in inn.conf> is ``true'' and appropriate setup  is  done	in
       newsfeeds(5).  file, for example:

	      overview!:*:Tc,WnteO:<pathbin in inn.conf>/overchan

       This data consists of a line of text, separated into four parts by a space.  The first part is a token for the article.	The second part is
       time when the article was received.  The third part is time when the article will be expired(which represents Expires header.)  The  fourth
       part is the data to be stored.  The data in the overview files should be expired by running expireover(8).  This is normally done by adding
       the ``expireover'' flag to the news.daily(8) invocation.

HISTORY

       Written by Rob Robertson <rob@violet.berkeley.edu> and Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews.	This is  revision  1.9.2.1,  dated
       2000/08/17.

SEE ALSO

       expireover(8), inn.conf(5), news.daily(8), newsfeeds(5).

																       OVERCHAN(8)