Subj : OT - Excuse me.
To   : Holger Granholm
From : David Calafrancesco
Date : Sat Sep 24 2005 10:02 am

Holger Granholm wrote in a message to Mike Powell:

 HG> In a message dated 09-21-05, Mike Powell said:

 MP> Well, I use the OO spreadsheet product on my Debian box 
 MP> all of the time.

 HG> To all, excuse this OT message!

 HG> Hi Mike,

 HG> Do you know of any *nix editor that can be configured WS/Borland.
 HG> I'm using QEdit/OS2 and I cannot imagine myself using any other
 HG> configuration if I want to test Linux.

Check joe or nano, in your ubuntu box go into your package selector of choice 
(I generally prefer dselect), make sure first that you have enabled the 
universe for packages (opens you to access a wider realm of programs other than 
just the core of ubuntu). scan through the packages for the editors section and 
see what works well for you. I too was wedded to qedit and thought I would 
never use anything else. Now I work exclusively with vi day in and day out and 
wouldn't dream of switching back :) 


 HG> Since my CP/M days I have never used any other commands in an
 HG> editor used for daily work.

 HG> I do have the Ubuntu Linux v5.04 that is based on Debian.

 HG> There are also other questions I may ask but not in this echo. My
 HG> e-mail address is: h_s_g(at)aland.net

You can email me at hgquestions@drakkar.org and I'll see what I can do to 
help... I also use Ubuntu and have been running debian on the servers for 
years. 

 HG> I will definitely not leave OS/2 for my BBS machine but would like
 HG> to test a version of Linux. AFAIK there's no other os than OS/2
 HG> that complete with a GUI occupies only 120 Mb.

actually... that would be no other OS than Linux that complete with a gui can 
occupy less than 64mb. Check out the DSL linux distribution where you get a 
full operating system, gui and applications in a sub 100mb bootable CD image. 
Burn it, stick it on a USB key or whatever and you have Linux wherever you need 
it. They even have a boot strap command to open and run DSL in a window on a 
winXX system. 

 HG> Have a nice day,

 HG> Holger

 HG> ---
 HG>  o MR/2 2.30 o If it ain't broken, let me take a crack at it.  *
 HG> Origin: Coming to you from the Sunny Aland Islands. (2:20/228) 

Dave Calafrancesco, Team OS/2
dave@drakkar.org

.... They got the library at Alexandria, they're not getting mine! 
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