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View Poll Results: What is your favorite editor?
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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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PNEWS(1)						      General Commands Manual							  PNEWS(1)

NAME
Pnews - a program for posting news articles SYNOPSIS
Pnews newsgroup title or Pnews -h headerfile [oldarticle] or Pnews DESCRIPTION
Pnews is a friendly interface for posting news articles. It will ask several questions, then allow you to enter your article, and then post it using the inews(1) program. If you type h and a carriage return at any point, Pnews will tell you what it wants to know. The -h form is used when invoked from rn. If your editor can edit multiple files, and you want the article to which you are replying to show up as an alternate file, define the environment variable NEWSPOSTER as "Pnews -h %h %A". You can also modify the the NEWSHEADER envi- ronment variable to change the header file that rn passes to Pnews. ENVIRONMENT
AUTHORCOPY If defined, contains the name of a file to which the finished article will be appended. Default: article not saved DOTDIR Where to find your dot files, if they aren't in your home directory. This is primarily for accounts which are shared by more than one person. Default: $HOME EDITOR The editor you want to use, if VISUAL is undefined. Default: whatever your news administrator installed, usually vi. HOME Your home directory. Default: $LOGDIR LOGDIR Your home directory if HOME is undefined. LOGNAME Your login name, if USER is undefined. Default: value of "whoami". NAME Your full name. Default: name from /etc/passwd, or ~/.fullname. ORGANIZATION Either the name of your organization, or the name of a file containing the name of your organization. Default: whatever your news administrator chose. USER Your login name. Default: $LOGNAME VISUAL The editor you want to use. Default: $EDITOR FILES
$DOTDIR/.article ~/dead.article SEE ALSO
rn(1), Rnmail(1), inews(1) DIAGNOSTICS
BUGS
Not the speediest program in the world, but maybe that's a blessing to the net. LOCAL PNEWS(1)