Text 9357, 73 rader
Skriven 2007-02-11 05:45:30 av Roger Nelson (1:3828/7.0)
   Kommentar till text 9353 av Maurice Kinal (1:140/13)
Ärende: Linux mail tosses
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Maurice Kinal wrote in a message to Roger Nelson:

 RN> The EDIT.EXE program I refer to was about 58K and was indeed an IBM 
 RN> product.

 MK> That definetly sounds familiar to me.  It has been awhile.

It was like no other editor I'd used before or since.  It was even pretty, but
you had to watch your step using it.  It had comamnds not unlike WordStar.

 RN> The manual that came with it was something else!  Lost in 
 RN> Katrina with my antique and relatively current stuff.

 MK> I am not sure I ever had a manual for it.  Was it ever needed?  I
 MK> didn't think so at the time.  Seemed pretty straight forward to me.

Oh, if you didn't have the manual, there was still the help key, but that often
wasn't enough.  This EDIT.EXE was anything but straight forward.

 MK> If I recall correctly, it took me about a month with MS-DOS before
 MK> it got the heave ho here.  That was a long time ago in a land far,
 MK> far away.  I never missed it.  Mostly used PC-DOS but played around
 MK> with a few others.  DR-DOS wasn't too shabby but was noticeably
 MK> slower running apps then PC-DOS was at the exact same apps.  As for
 MK> text editors I never noticed since I was the slowest typing there
 MK> and thus anything could keep up, even a DOS based word processor. 
 MK> :::shudder:::

I began with PC-DOS and then went to MS-DOS.  I had a brand new box of DR-DOS
that remained unopened.  I had no experience with it at all.  The free-to-all
release of IBM's OS/2 2.1 December '92 beta became available and I was hooked. 
A shame they discontinued support for it after the release of Warp 4 and its
fixpaks.

 RN> I'm at that point in my life where I don't want to learn anything 
 RN> new, but if Ubuntu's GUI is as user friendly as Joe says it is, then 
 RN> it won't be long before it's installed here.

 MK> From the little I saw it looked fine.  The neighbour liked it so I
 MK> assume it is fine.  He is definetly more of a GUI type then I am,
 MK> to say the least.  Also he is trustworthy but sometimes misses
 MK> something that isn't readily apparent. 

You still have to compile new programs that you get for it?  I believe I have
the Linux 10.? release here somewhere, but never could get it to see my ZIP
drive.

 RN> Only thing that will hold me up then is a decent DOS emulator and 
 RN> a Linux version of BINKD.  Many things to research yet.

 MK> I am no longer sure about emulation but binkd is okay if you like
 MK> that sort of thing.  Works here on both a 486 and Pentimu D EM64T,
 MK> although I no longer use or even need it on the Pentium D.  Having
 MK> said that, the one currently running on the 486 was built using the
 MK> Pentium D with a special development partition built especially for
 MK> that purpose.  I am betting the 486 here is the most up to date 486
 MK> ever!!!  :-)  If not it is certainly up there.

Impressive.

 MK> DOS emulation?!?!?!?!?!  What for?  DOS never could compete with
 MK> any Unix EVER, nevermind Linux.  I say, let it go, set it free.

Because there is a DOS-based mailer I'm beta testing.  Eventually we hope the
author will get around to writing versions for other OS, but that will, in this
case, require a rewrite of the entire code.


Regards,

Roger 
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