Hey Nancy!

Jan 02 19:00 07, Nancy Backus wrote to MAURICE KINAL:

 NB> My resident wizard set me up with DOS, but with a number of unix
 NB> commands along with DOS versions of essentially *nix programs.  E.g.,
 NB> I'm typing this in MicroEMACS.

I feel your pain.  I hated EMACS and never bothered with it when first
(later too) installing Linux or FreeBSD.  I like vi (vim) though although I
had to get used to it again after using QEdit on DOS after losing access to
the Sparcs I got spoiled by.

 NB> So I have to admit that it isn't pure
 NB> DOS.

Right.  I am not certain there ever was other the the original floppy disk
utility that Gates and friend bought out.

 NB> And I do have the capability to look at pretty pictures, but on 
 NB> my
 NB> own decision (with lxpic installed to display them).

Cool.  I used to have something like that but I forget now what it was. 
Now I just use a framebuffered app on the console called fbi that can even
display PDF's, faxes and postscript files.  It acts as a frontend for
ghostscript.  Truly remarkable.  Also I can play DVD's and assorted
digitized movie formats on the console via mplayer and even create (encode)
a couple digital formats as well as digital sound (encode and decode), not
to mention TV (watch and encode) all without a GUI.  I am very special. 
:-)

 NB> I just don't do 
 NB> it
 NB> much...    And I hear you on the joke there...  
No fear here,
 NB> either...

Same here, despite that I can.  Funny how that works.  Those who can don't
seem to bother for whatever strange reason.

Life is good,
Maurice

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