23 Aug 08 04:34, Mark Lewis wrote to Roy Witt:

 ML> -=> On 08-19-08 10:19, Roy Witt wrote to Roger Nelson <=-

 RW>> 17 Aug 08 07:52, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:

 RW>>> I think I'm too old to learn how to use OS/2...

 RN>> It's not as hard as you might think and if you haven't used OS/2
 RN>> before, the learning curve is very short.

 RW>> I ran Warp 2 a few years ago. Maybe I've got a mental block,

 ML> i won't get into that ;) but i will say that there's a hugedifference
 ML> between Warp 2 and Warp 3...

I never got that far.

 ML> then there's the intervenening years between Warp 3 and Warp 4... a
 ML> /lot/ of things changed between them...

 RW>> but nothing else I've played with was as easy as DOS was. I

 ML> nothing will ever be as "easy" as DOS ever was... that's
a memory and
 ML> one that many will never forget ;)

I liked it until someone showed me multiple tasking with W3.1...that
seems crude now.

 RW>> also don't like the GUI interfaces of any Linux I've seen. The
 RW>> icons and graphics look like something Mattel would have made.

 ML> see? that's one of the great things about *nix systems and their
 ML> X-Windows GUI interface... there are many different GUI interfaces
 ML> that one can run on any *nix system that it isn't even funny...

I know, I found many different interfaces, but never liked any of them,
even when I found Windows like icons for them.

 ML> changing the theme is "easy squeezy" and changing the GUI is even
 ML> easier... and there are so many GUIs to choose from, too!

I think that's the problem. Each one is a new learning curve I don't have
time for.

 RW>>> You can type a partial address into the address window of Firefox
 RW>>> and it will do that too. If you google it, then you have to find it
 RW>>> in a list.

 RN>> I've noticed that sometimes when "www" is omitted,
some very unusual
 RN>> results are displayed.

 ML> this has to do with today's browsers trying to guess what the actual
 ML> URL is that you are looking for... it is a side effect of m$'s "dumb
 ML> it down" program...

As I understand it, Mozilla's Firefox began as a unix browser and was
expanded to include a lot of OSs...The MS interface started out being
better than IE and AFAIK, it still is.

 RN>> Anyway, when the Warp machine is up and
 RN>> running I'll be using the OS/2 versions of mail clients and web
 RN>> browsers.

 ML> i've tried that on my stuff and, sadly, Warp 3 has been left behind
 ML> just as everything else has been :(

There's a Firefox version for Warp too.

 RW>> I've never run into anything like that. When an ad on TV
 RW>> displays a web site link, I never use the www and always end up
 RW>> on their site.

 ML> again, that's due to the browser thinking for you... again, a side
 ML> effect of m$'s shennanigans...

Unix...

                R\%/itt



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