On 6/14 Dennis Paulson wrote:

>To those of you who are considering acquiring a new computer, an anecdote.
>
>Eric Greenwood's file on Creston Valley came through to me as a text file.
>I double-clicked on it, and my Macintosh asked me if I wanted to open it in
>Word. I clicked yes, and it quickly translated the MS-DOS WordPerfect
>document into Word, quite readable, formatted, in Courier font (not my
>default font; was it written in Courier, Eric?) and without a single =20 at
>the end of a line. And *much* quicker than it took me to type this.
>
>And I don't own any Apple stock.
>

No problem for me either, except, since my Mac is a "Microsoft-Free Zone,"
ClarisWorks did the job.

BTW, I do own a small amount of Apple stock :>)

David Lyles
Portland OR