FreeLists / arachne / [arachne] Re: My misbehaving ISP (base64 test)

["Peter Lawrence" <peterl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 13:35:52 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:

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> Don't they know that many of their email recipients don't have M$-Word
> installed in their computers, and don't they know that even the people
> who do have that most abominable program installed will have a difficult
> time in trying to reply to their messages?  The best way I know of for
> replying to people who send emails like that is to convert the MS-Word
> attachment to text by using Antiword and then manually applying the
> ">" prefixes to all the resulting lines of text in order to refer to
> and to comment upon whatever they had to say.

> BTW, if anyone knows of a good freeware program that will automagically
> apply the ">" prefixes to all the lines of a text file, please let me
> know about it.

It sounds as though you want a proper scripting language. I believe it
is still possible to get old Dos versions of Perl, v4.0 I think.
Something like that would do the trick. Or try the variant of Trac that
comes in Freemacs (I haven't used it myself). PML.
GST+NPT=JOBS

I.e., a Goods and Services Tax (or almost any other broad based production 
tax), with a Negative Payroll Tax, promotes employme
t. 

See http://member.netlink.com.au/~peterl/publicns.html#AFRLET2 and the other 
items on that page for some reasons why. 

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