Why Winzip?.... A Retrospective
                         Copyright 1995 by Bernie

 Good reader this piece is meant to be accompanied by a musical score
 beginning about mid-article, starting out at as a soft, almost
 imperceivable volume and ending fortissimo. I hear a patriotic piece...
 perhaps the Battle Hymn of the Republic... Go back and try it!  Now see
 what you've done... Ya got me started again. I'll have to cancel my
 patient load AGAIN for today.......

 DAMN IT!

 Thanks to all for the overwhelming number of replies regarding the
 musical question "Why should I use Winzip?"  I have been very
 surprised... veritably shocked at the lack of enthusiasm for this
 ubiquitous utility, which has been evident in the feedback to my query.

 I would not have guessed that there would be about a 6 to 1 ratio of
 comments against.  Either this unscientific survey means that Winzip is
 truly held in quite low regard, or that I have somehow struck a chord
 with the subversive element of this Windows NewsGroup, whose agenda would
 be to function as the nidus for a return to the days of real blood and
 guts computing... none of this cartoon stuff with little pictures serving
 as replacements for intellectual thought... yes, even for truth, justice
 and the American way.  Today heralds a throw-back to the days when
 cashiers gave change by counting rather than obeying the mindless orders
 of the change-calculating cash register. A return to the time of phonics
 and order in schools... to a time when you could leave your doors
 unlocked, when gasoline was 39 cents a gallon, when gay meant happy (no
 letters please... no slur intended), when funny little plastic glasses
 were given out in theater lobbies to view 3-D movies. In short, a return
 to the g ood old days.

 Little did I think when asking this question, that, one day in the
 future.... our children and our children's children will look upon this
 day, the day of the response to my question on Winzip, as the
 beginning... yea the genesis of a the new era, the turning point, the
 rebirth of the return to sense, to personal responsibility, to integrity,
 to everything that is good and wholesome and, yes... we were there... we
 were there together.

 Mine eyes fill with tears and my voice chokes with emotion as I dwell
 upon this, and I can only say, with the utmost of humility, that I could
 not have done all of this alone.  No one person could have achieved all
 of this alone. It was you... you renaissance people out there in
 cyber-land who, in joining with me in this revolution, deserve so much of
 the credit..... YOU are the ones who are never to be forgotten, of whom
 stories will be told and songs will be written.  YOU are the sentinels of
 the new time, the bravest of the brave, the wisest of the wise! God bless
 you folks. God bless you one and all.. real good!... and God bless DOS 6.

 Bernie...I have only one name like Cher, Fabian, Pauline. and Fabio
 bernie11@ix.netcom.com
 July 12, 1995 -how fitting.. between the 4th of July and Bastille Day!

 Bernie No-last-Name..You are the hero!  The best of the best! The finest
 and truest of us all.  You make me proud.....







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