[TenTec] Help me, I'm dumb.

[jack User]

sounds like you know Linux. have you ever tried to make Xlog work in
Linux? i tried a couple times in Ubuntu 8.10, had it working until i
rebooted. then it failed miserably: would not load. 1.7 would not
install properly. 3.0 installed and failed. i gave up. 

jack
ak7o

On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 13:49 -0600, Dr. Gerald N. Johnson wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 14:20 -0400, j j wrote:
> > if you're looking for a wordstar-like word processor that is
> > compatible with newer windows versions, you might try this:
> > 
> > http://www.winvi.de/en/
> > 
> > the above text editor started out in linux but has apparently been
> > ported over to windows.  the original linux version is very popular in
> > the linux community.  not sure how compatible it is with the wordstar
> > commands as i never used wordstar, but if vi/winvi doesn't meet your
> > needs, check out the linux community of software and see if there is
> > another editor that is more closely related to wordstar that has been
> > ported over to windows and/or DOS.
> 
> I don't run windoze for any work tasks, so winvi and I would not be a
> benefit if even I found it capable which I haven't.
> 
> I have looked at many linux emulated WS. None do so basic things that WS
> does. So on this linux box, I can go to XDOSEMU to run the DOS 4.0
> version of Linux. Sometimes I don't need the things that WS does and can
> use GEDIT in Linux. Many WS emulators have been made using the VI base.
> They are all incompetent in a couple areas. 
> 
> One I use on occasion is editing the line endings, say from UNIX nl to
> MS cr/lf. VI won't do that. In WS I can say global replace ctl-p ctl-m
> ctl-p ctl-j with ctl-p ctl-j to convert from MS to Unix. The ctl-p says
> the following character is a control character, not a command. Or I can
> say replace backwards <space> ctl-p ctl-m with ctl-l ctl-m and it will
> strip trailing spaces from source code lines all by its self without
> bothering multiple spaces in the line. I've seen no other editor that
> will do that. VI is line oriented and won't let the user touch those
> sacred line endings. Many others are the same way.
> 
> Another I use in data analysis is the column mode. There I can define a
> block as being 3 columns wide by 173 lines tall and move it about,
> sideways, or delete that column of spaces or copy it. That's a
> capability not in any other that I've seen. That's really handy in a
> spaceless comma delimited database file to replace commas with comma tab
> to line up the data columns for easier reading. Then to replace all the
> tabs with nothing after the data has been manually massaged. Or to
> reshuffle the column order a whole database at a time. Not one line at a
> time.
> 
> WS cursor moves are based on the ESDX diamond with the control key
> pushed. So its really handy to have the control key to the left of A.
> Most WS commands are based on control keys. I struggle with a keyboard
> having caps lock in that wrong position. But I fix my keyboards soon and
> use Northgate that last 25 years a keyboard. Loud and clicky, none of
> this push a sponge until your finger hurts without audible feedback. I
> just took my main one out of service and I'm sure I used it with the 20
> MHz 286 computer I built decades ago.
> 
> I'm sure I won't be running Vista any time soon, nor the new 7. At least
> not on any compute of mine, though today my task is getting a USB760
> modem working for Verizon broad band and I may have to run restore XP on
> something to get that modem initialized. If I can't get it to go on win
> 98SE. I do own a couple copies of XP, so I could if I wanted it reported
> to Redmond what software I owned each day.
> 
> 73, Jerry, K0CQ
> 
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