Maurice Kinal wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RJT> Yes.  Other files use separate subdirectories to keep things sorted 
 RJT> out.  Not that I've ever gone multiline here,  but I have the 
 RJT> capability (under dos/dv),

 MK> Again it wasn't that way by default, straight DOS, and required
 MK> extra software to enable that functionality.  It seems to me that
 MK> emulation of DOS offers very little functionality and in fact adds
 MK> drag to a Linux system.

The biggest single advantage to me would be my ability to take my current
setup and drop it in there and have it work without having to fiddle with
it.

 MK> If multinodal Maximus is the goal then it seems to me that one 
 MK> should just use dos/dv and let dv handle the networking aspect for 
 MK> DOS and Maximus.  Why cripple a Linux system just for a few simple 
 MK> text games?

Games are not an issue for me.  I'm not so sure that multiline is these
days either,  though there was a time when it might have been.  I think
those days are past,  though.

 RJT> Aside from me using TimED for the convenience (I just like it better 
 RJT> as a message editor),  I'm using it _now_.

 MK> Right.  I've noticed.  I have seen a few duped msgid's in the past
 MK> from you.  ;-)

Eh?  First I've heard of that.

 RJT> I need to start looking at some of this stuff soon.

 MK> I have off and on.  I have a few scripts, bash and perl, to compare
 MK> and contrast some formatting schemes.  perl won out on that 
 MK> particular issue and now am using microperl to handle that end.  I
 MK> don't require a full bloated perl just for that.

I dropped some stuff in email,  from what I can see it's both bash and
perl. Never heard of microperl either,  but then perl in general isn't
something that I've gotten at all that far into yet...

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