Path: news.easynews.com!newsfeed1.easynews.com!newsfeed2.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!newsfeed.news2me.com!canoe.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: joel-garry@home.com (Joel Garry) Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Oracle: Naked King in database land? Date: 4 Apr 2003 18:11:48 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 31 Message-ID: <91884734.0304041811.1663b6d7@posting.google.com> References: <9oqia.9952$Pp.1241589@amsnews03.chello.com> <3E8B39B8.7E360786@telusplanet.net> <73e20c6c.0304022258.134bbc1f@posting.google.com> <2687bb95.0304030625.7652dfcc@posting.google.com> <73e20c6c.0304031600.6fefaf81@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.116.125.178 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1049508708 28316 127.0.0.1 (5 Apr 2003 02:11:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Apr 2003 02:11:48 GMT Xref: newsfeed1.easynews.com comp.databases.oracle.server:182082 X-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 19:11:30 MST (news.easynews.com) wizofoz2k@yahoo.com.au (Nuno Souto) wrote in message news:<73e20c6c.0304031600.6fefaf81@posting.google.com>... > Mark.Powell@eds.com (Mark D Powell) wrote in message news:<2687bb95.0304030625.7652dfcc@posting.google.com>... > > > would appreciate just what an improvement it was. Vi is a plan text > > file editor and is very good for that. It is not suitable for writing > > term papers. The right tool for the right job. > > Precisely. Frankly, when I have to write large amounts of technical docs for all the DBA stuff that hasn't been kept up to date :-O , I find it most efficient to blast it in with vi, then import and tart it up in whatever format the customer wants. The second part is when I do the final editing anyways, it helps to have a literal fresh view. Of course, my wetware shpieling chick is better than those frustrating GUI tools that are always trying to change case or otherwise be two-timing helpful. > > > Cheers > Nuno Souto > wizofoz2k@yahoo.com.au.nospam So is Dark Side Of The Moon secretly dumping your brain? :-) jg -- @home.com is bogus. For those who don't get the last joke, you need to play that album while watching Wizard of Oz. Rumors abound about it.