In your message dated: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 23:49:14 -0800 you write:
>R. Lee Hawkins wrote:
>
>>>Chris is right: this would be my number one suggestion as well,
>>>closely followed by WordPerfect and FrameMaker
>>
>>Have you ever looked at the prices for these for Unix? You seriously
>>think I could convince my university to get WP or FrameMaker [...]
>
>Yes, and maybe/maybe not. You can safely assume that I knew what I was
>talking about. I believe I have been on this list long enough, and
>have posted enough material here to earn the right to be taken
>seriously without having to attach my resume to every post.
Whoa, let's go to our neutral corners for a second.
>
>[snip]
>>>I avoid at all costs the business of convincing the inconvincible.
>>
>>I'm not inconvincible. It's just that no one has yet convinced me [...]
>
>Lee, sometimes you really make it too easy. Sure, the above is a cheap
>"edit", but no human could possibly resist it. :-)
Inconvincible means I'd never be able to be convinced. That's not the
same as saying no one has yet convinced me.
>
>
>I would really like to put an end to this topic before too much piss
>and vinegar melts down the zuiko.sls.bc.ca server. Here is a brief
>account of what happened:
>
>After Lee's latest FAQ update, I read it through and made some
>IMHO rather innocuous comments and suggestions. I even offered to
>provide as necessary some constructive input. God knows, I didn't do
>it for my own benefit, as I'm an infrequent visitor to the FAQ site.
>
>Regrettably, I must have stepped on some rather sensitive toes, and my
Seems like I have done the same thing. ;)
>comments were interpreted as criticism. For this I apologise: I really
>meant no harm. Anyway, I decided to butt out -- I never beg anyone to
>accept my free help.
Well, instead of getting so easily offended, you could have done as
Chris did and provided me with tools to do the job. *shrug*. I have
limited time to work on the FAQ, and all help is appreciated, really.
>
>And so I was sitting firmly on my hands, briefly letting them back on
>the keyboard only when Chris "Mr. UNIX" Biggs wrapped some LaTeX around
>this discussion. Frankly, it's none of my business how RLH chooses to
>generate and maintain the OLY FAQ. From now on, I shall remain mum on
>this sublect.
Geez Gary, cool down. My comments were never meant as a personal
attack, and you should know that. I was just pointing out that we don't
do WordPerfect on Unix boxes here, and that I personally don't like
using LaTeX (although I know how, and maintain the installation for the
department). Chris Biggs has provided me with a perl script that might
just meet all my qualifications, and I'll be trying it out later today.
My guess is that it will pass muster and we'll have an HTML-ized FAQ
before the day is out.
Now, let's go back to being one big happy family, dammit! :)
Cheers,
--Lee
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