Hey Phil!

Sep 13 10:06 04, Phil Marlowe wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 PM>  === Sounds interesting but I'm not familiar with
 PM>  Linux. Is it available in all versions of Linux?

Part of the kbd package which happens to be part of the Slackware
distribution or sure.  I am using it as we speak given that the Fido editor
I am using takes advantage of whatever font I decide to feed it.  The best
thing about most Linux apps is that they leave all that type of stuff to
whatever utility one decides to put on.  This is the way DOS should have
done things right from the start and it might have survived.  Oh well their
loss my gain.  I always preferred UNIX anyhow so I am not crying about it.

 PM>  And why is it "the best there is?" Compared to
 PM>  what? What else have you seen?

I started out on VMS, then UNIX (Solaris to be more precise), then DOS
(seeing there wasn't a choice at the time) on a 386 which was my first PC,
OS/2 briefly, then Linux and BSD, although I've dropped BSD.  Out of all
those Linux is the best in my most humble opinion.  Never did Windows ever
except on other's computers as I don't believe in crippling a PC.  I once
wrote a printer driver for Windows and swore back then I would never
succumb to that again unless someone was paying me BIG bucks.  Windows is
crap.  Eye candy is all it is.

 PM>  === What Jasen's code was used for was to set up
 PM>  a simple =easy-to-use= reader. Note the emphasis.

A good idea for sure.

 PM>  These people are not computer savvy. Aside from
 PM>  the obvious limitations and intentions, this is
 PM>  a sort of introduction to computers for them,
 PM>  which is why it has to be relatively painless.
 PM>  Jasen's code was used with a DOS text editor.
 PM>  From what I've heard Linux's is a -steep-
 PM>  learning curve.

To say the least.  It definetly is best to have a guru on hand.  Doable though.

Life is good,
Maurice

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