Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 15:54 -0500, Temlakos wrote: >> With Fedora, you can get a complete word-processing suite (though why >> they disabled the Replacement list in AutoCorrect for OpenOffice >> Writer, no one has ever explained) > > I seem to recall someone mentioning search and replace being under > threat of one of those foolish patents from some other application that > first provided search and replace, according to them. > Interesting. I would think you could find all kinds of prier are for search and replace. Maybe not auto-correct, but there was search & replace, and possibly a spell checker in Word Star for CP/M. The spell checker would have been a separate module - everything was broken down into modules because of memory limits. (It ran in less then 64k of RAM.) Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
