On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 09:10 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > 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.) It was a bit of a clunker, but it worked just fine. All the CP/M machines I had had 64k of memory, and I had darn near one of each. Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
