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Subject:Re: before/prior to From:Karen Kay <karenk -at- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 22 Aug 1994 09:58:21 -0700
Glen Accardo said:
> "Versions of this software prior to/before X.x" both sound sorta wierd
> to me, but I wouldn't edit either out of a sentence. When I write such
> things, I usually don't use "versions" as the subject/object. I'll
> write:
> Before version X.X, Farklesnarben caused cancer. This bug has been fixed.
It's mostly not used this way--I've get sentences and tables with
things like "this is the way things work in versions prior to 3.0, and
this is the way things work in later verions".
