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Subject:Re: WP vs Word From:Rick Lippincott <RJLIPPINCOTT -at- DELPHI -dot- COM> Date:Sun, 16 Oct 1994 08:22:02 -0400
Marc Santacroce wrote (regarding WP, Word, and hammers):
>But the foreman didn't have to to buy 10 copies of a $600 application. I
>think the client has a right to expect you to conform to them...
But this reflects on a discussion we had a couple of weeks ago. As the
client doesn't want to buy 10 different applications, neither do I. I don't
have the cash, I don't have the hard drive space to own copies of every WP
and DTP commonly used. But, when I was job hunting, there were these
barriers. "You know FrameMaker, but not Pagemaker?" "You know Frame on
Windows, but not on a Mac?" "You know Word for Windows 2.0, but not 6.0?"
I wish more people had asked me if I knew how to -write-.
Rick Lippincott
rjlippincott -at- delphi -dot- com
