Microsoft tipping

Collins erichey2
Mon May 17 11:57:36 PDT 2004


On Tuesday 30 December 2003 07:09, Alan Jackson wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 12:23:17 -0800
>
> Collins <erichey2 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > OTOH, if you want a lesson in frustration, just try the label printing
> > functions in Open/Star/Office. Or even better, ever want to transfer mail
> > from one of the mutually incompatible open source mailers to another?  We
> > can't blame M$ for those POS!!!
>
> I wrote & support a perl module for printing labels, if you need to do
> that sort of work. I even have example scripts for generating Xmas
> card labels from a Palm Pilot database. The code has also been used
> by folks to print diskette labels, labels for photographs, and labels
> in Portugese and Finnish.
>
> Does require a little perl hacking though - no GUI.

Cool.  Why not post it to the sxs!

-- 
Collins



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