Re: Emacs history, and "Is Emacs difficult to learn?"

[Emanuel Berg]

Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:

> ... why spreadsheets are just FP in disguise
>
> http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~black/S3S/PeytonJones.ppt

I tried to print that file with 'lpr', but I got only white pages
with a few goofy chars each. Then I tried to browse it with
Emacs-w3m, but it just displayed gibberish when I chose not to
download it, but instead tried to "display" it. Then, 'file'
revealed:

>> PeytonJones.ppt: Composite Document File V2 Document, Little
>> Endian, Os: Windows, Version 5.1, Code page: 1252, Title: Slide
>> 1, Author: Peyton Jones, Template: Stream, Last Saved By: Simon
>> Peyton-Jones, Revision Number: 105, Name of Creating
>> Application: Microsoft PowerPoint, Total Editing Time:
>> 5d+17:47:27, Create Time/Date: Wed Nov 7 22:57:44 2001, Last
>> Saved Time/Date: Fri Dec 5 20:01:38 2003, Number of Words: 1127

Well, I'm not going to "read" any PowerPoint, that's for sure.

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