Open Office 2

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2005, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
>A. Khattri wrote:
>
>>
>>If memory serves, closing a document in M$ Office doesn't NOT exit the
>>application. However, doing File -> Quit will close both the document (and
>>possibly prompt you to save it) and the application.
>>
>>This is normal Windows behavior.
>> 
>>
>Actually, Ajay, this behaviour is NOT consistent across all Microsoft 
>applications. If you used the "X" button at the top right-hand corner of 
>the window to close files, in MSWord2000, you will close the file, but 
>NOT the application. If you used it in Excel, it closes everything. 
>Powerpoint does the same thing. If you closed Outlook, it will still 
>leave open message windows open.

You want consistency in applications from Microsoft when they don't even
have consistency in parameters and returns for system calls between
different varieties and patch levels of Windows itself?

David Korn, author of the Korn Shell and uwin, system to provide Unix
functionallity under Windows, spoke to our Seattle Unix Group several years
ago on the development of uwin.  He said that this inconsistency of Windows
API at the system call level was one of the major factors that made the
uwin project difficult.

Bill
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