On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 09:10 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Tim wrote:
On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 15:54 -0500, Temlakos wrote:
With Fedora, you can get a complete word-processing suite (though why they disabled the Replacement list in AutoCorrect for OpenOffice Writer, no one has ever explained)
I seem to recall someone mentioning search and replace being under threat of one of those foolish patents from some other application that first provided search and replace, according to them.
Interesting. I would think you could find all kinds of prier are for search and replace. Maybe not auto-correct, but there was search & replace, and possibly a spell checker in Word Star for CP/M. The spell checker would have been a separate module - everything was broken down into modules because of memory limits. (It ran in less then 64k of RAM.)
It was a bit of a clunker, but it worked just fine. All the CP/M machines I had had 64k of memory, and I had darn near one of each. Ric