Word: disks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...only gift was Microsoft's recent announcement that they would no longer copy-protect any non-game disks (so much for getting an illegal copy of flight simulator). Gone are the days when the Happy Hacker, after trekking many a mile to the Office of Information Technology, prepares to laser-print a paper only to remember the need for a $%?&*! Word master disk in order to read in the file...
Although ResEdit means no harm, it can sometimes destroy disks unintentionally. Apparently, the program has a few bugs which can really muck things up, not just for the file being edited but for the whole disk. As a precaution, always use ResEdit on a backup of a file which is on a disk with nothing important...
Messages can also be conveniently changed. Thus it is possible to modify old versions of Microsoft Word to display "Time to trek back to the Quad for the $%?&*! master disk" instead of "Please insert the Word master disk...
...Happy Hacker frequently likes to use a bold type style when writing papers in Word. Before ResEditing his Word disk, however, switching to bold took several keystrokes (not to mention a lunge for the mouse); the menu had to be chosen and then the Hacker had to click on bold. ResEdit has allowed the Hacker to define the command-1 key (i.e. pressing the little squiggly key simultaneously with the 1 key) as performing the same function as selecting Bold on the Character menu; no more grasping for that non-teflon paded mouse...
...station's disk jockeys come up with their own ideas for the orgies and then submit the ideas for approval to theprogram director. Occasionally listeners will alsosend in suggestions for the orgies...