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echo: dads
to: Nancy Backus
from: Janis Kracht
date: 2009-11-15 11:16:16
subject: Re: cyberpuritan

Hi Nancy!

> I'm not using qedit... or linux.  And I haven't used Wordstar (except
> perhaps inadvertantly on someone's bbs) for most of my computering life.
> I'm strictly DOS (with a few *nix commands tossed in for good measure by
> my Wizard that sets up things here, and teaches me the magic spells),

Those Wizard-types are handy 

> and have been using MicroEMACS 3.8b (for DOS) ever since we set up our
> first computer here at home.  There are a number of Ctrl-something
> commands, but there are also some Function key macros that make things
> quicker.  I use the f9 to save and the f10 to exit, for example... but I
> use Ctrl+E to go to the end of the line, and cut-and-paste are Ctrl and
> Esc plus letters.  :)

That sounds very much like joe, the editor I use most days  when need a
good text editor.. :)

>> expect this week's nodelist to reflect the full region again since the
>> problem was found over there.  Not a lot of 'k' but every little bit
>> helps .

> And every week, month, year that the nodelist continues, is that much
> longer that BBSes have beat the nay-saying prophecies... :)  As I said,
> somehow we just manage to keep chugging along... since we still keep
> using it, it's still here... and since there are still sysops that keep
> things flowing... ;)

Yeah I think that the world of bbsing will have it's place for quite a while yet :)

Take care,
Janis

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