Re: [bug-miscfiles] Re: 'box' missing from web2?

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   > Thank you guys for keeping me in the loop on this.  It is fun
   > reading the discussions.  I couldn't believe that 'box' was
   > missing (not to mention all of the others) and that this was
   > "news".
   > 
   > I am glad that I said something.

   Most surprising for me was that MacOS is using a word list from GNU
   (and/or BSD). They should have a better one they can drop in after
   all these years.

   They're the ones who've been selling machines to professional
   writers to do "word processing". We're the guys who couldn't spell
   "creat". We just have a word list so we can cheat at crossword
   puzzles with grep. We don't know what word processing is, but we're
   sure it's a subset of what vi and emacs do.

   And they're trusting our word list? It should be the other way
   around.

Trusting the word list is fine since it is easy to examine it, but the
real problem is that OS X is a non-free software operating system
where you as a computer user have no control over what it does.  What
Apple should do is make OS X free software instead of dropping the
word list, or make life miserable for users by storing it in a
propietery format.

As for creat, that is not a miss-spelling of create it was a concious
decision by the C authors.