RE: RTFM (was: CPYF behavior) -- MIDRANGE-L

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Joel wrote:
>I thought unix and its variants were pretty much all add ons after basic
>services.  Isn't the idea that you can customize it infinitely.?  <g>

Well, sure.  But X by itself is pretty unusable.  It needs
some additional "window manager" on top of that.

My point is that when using GUI's such as KDE or OS/2's
Workplace Shell, I've never seen much need to enhance the
GUI's capabilities with the kind of additional 3rd party
utilities that seem so common in the Windows world.

Cheers!  Hans

Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com

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