Subj : Re: My A2K died
To   : DENNIS SMITH
From : Rene Laederach
Date : Sun Sep 28 2003 21:14:14

DENNIS SMITH wrote to RENE LAEDERACH:
DS>  RL> Else, your machine is probably not easily salvagable.
DS> 
DS>  I'll try all this after I get this A1 handling what the A2K did.:)

Not really difficult. There are Fido editors on Linux, and probably also QWK 
if
 you're looking hard enough.

DS>  I've installed Minicom & MMail in the A1. I'm using a ModemBlaster. It's 
DS> coming together. The only hard part is this MMail editor -- vi (visual).

vi is good as long as you can use the cursor keys as you're used from the
Amiga. The big problems come when you have to work with some retarded 
terminal
that doesn't support cursor keys, but things like ESC-x (delete), ESC-e
(advance one character) or ESC-l (last char). Luckily, Olaf Barthel's term 
had
a few useful key mappings for this. Not so on Linux, here we're stuck with
braindead terminals on non-Linux OSes.
        


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