Subj : Re: My A2K died;moving on
To   : RENE LAEDERACH
From : DENNIS SMITH
Date : Wed Oct 01 2003 22:37:00

-=> RENE LAEDERACH wrote to DENNIS SMITH <=-

 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.:)

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

 I got one and I like it -- Joe editor; works like an ANSI full screen
editor! I'm not tangled in CTRL keys. I think it's great! :) It's actually
5 editors in one -- Joe,JPico,JStar,Jmacs, rJoe. It's much faster to use than
vi. Yeh, JStar like in WordStar!! Even uses ISpell.
 
 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).

 RL> vi is good as long as you can use the cursor keys as you're used from
 RL> the Amiga. The big problems come when you have to work with some
 RL> retarded terminal
 RL> that doesn't support cursor keys, but things like ESC-x (delete), ESC-e
 RL> (advance one character) or ESC-l (last char). Luckily, Olaf Barthel's
 RL> term had
 RL> a few useful key mappings for this. Not so on Linux, here we're stuck
 RL> with braindead terminals on non-Linux OSes.
 
 I used TERM. A nice solid prg; used mostly NCom. You can't use them in UAE.
The problem is no interface from UAE to PPC. I tried to use AmiQWK to do
mail, but won't open the packet because of real time clock error -- TZ. UAE
couldn't read RT and set TZ variable and skips the packet. :-/   

So, Joe+mm+minicom+AmigaOne+ModemBlaster= :-) While, looking through
KPM's cache, I saw these -- sql editor, Kxml editor, GoldedPlus, Crashmail,
VIm and Joe. Golded+ was beta and the changelog gave it low urgency unstable.
So, I don't want to do apt-pinning yet. Later, when I know more linux! :-)

Dennis

 RL> email: mussi@snoop.alphanet.ch | "If you're taking flak,
 RL> Fidonet: 2:301/133             | you're above the target."
 RL> --- MBSE BBS v0.37.6 (GNU/Linux-i386)
=:o

.... If you got an AmigaOne, you'll be on target!
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