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List:       openoffice-users
Subject:    Re: OOo and WinXP SP2
From:       Matt Needles <needlesm () bellsouth ! net>
Date:       2004-08-21 1:08:02
Message-ID: cg679o$aku$1 () sea ! gmane ! org
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Chad Smith wrote:
> 
> 
> jkelleher@jps.net wrote:
> 
>> Hey I LIKE VI...
>> The other tools are very useful indeed...
>> Ok you are correct on some of that though
>> Some are scared off by teh wwwierd (To them) names...
>> More so I think by teh command line...
>> Try to talk a 'Doze user into using the Dos prompt... :)
>> But I did find it easy to upgrade and close security issues.
>> I guess it is what you may or not be used to.
>>
>> Jim TE
>>
> 
> There is no DOS prompt.
> 
> There is a "Command Prompt" function, but it is just another Windows 
> program.  It even opens in a window.
> 
> DOS is dead.  Long live...  Well something.  Maybe Windows, maybe Linux, 
> maybe Mac.  Just not DOS.
> 
> -Chad Smith
> 
This is true for WinNT and derivatives, but not for WinMe/9x and 
earlier.  Those Windows versions are actually GUI's that run in a DOS 
environment.

Matt


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