Subj : ;My A2K died;hello, A1... To : Dennis Smith From : Craig Hutchison Date : Sun Oct 05 2003 23:53:28 G'day DENNIS, In a message dated 02 Oct 03 you wrote: DS> Hi! Well, I haven't seen the "G'day" from 'downunder' in a while! :) DS> Where you've been? It's good to hear from you! :) I was just at ADUG's DS> site and I see a OS Tour for your neighborhood. Are you going to it? I've never had anything to do with ADUG. I don't share their philosophy. I also haven't had anything to do with the two local user groups in about 6 months. I had a longish converstion with an employee of A.Inc earlier in the year and quickly lost interest in anything to do with a new Amiga. I certainly won't be buying one of their overpriced PPC boxes either. If I wanted expensive custom PPC hardware I'd get a Macintosh. (Yuk!) CH>> Can I assume MMail is MultiMail, by William McBrine? If so, the editor CH>> variable is configurable. vi is the default because most every Linux CH>> box has it. (or a symlink to something close) DS> Yep, hangon... /usr/share/doc/multimail/copyright>... DS> DS> Package: multimail DS> Obtained from: http://multimail.sourceforge.net/ DS> Packaged for Debian by: peter karlsson DS> Upstream author: William McBrine Hmmm. Peter Karlsson is a name I know. I have several utilities that run under TransAmiga written by a Peter Karrlson. Wonder if it's the same guy? DS> since version 0.7, the maintainer is William McBrine Yup. That's him. You can find him in the Fido LINUX echo, as well as LINUX_USER and LINUX_BBS. DS> It's very good & easy to use and colorful shell prg.! I like it. Yeah, I tried the x86 version some time back. It was just after I'd setup the networking here. I was testing QWK over telnet from the Linux box to the Amiga. CH>> Just realised my first question is somewhat redundant. Check out your CH>> ~/.mmail(.rc) file and see what the editor variable is set to. Else, CH>> check the docs. DS> Yep, done that already. The default $editor for mmailrc is vi. I DS> changed it to joe. The joe editor is so much easier to use. A popular DS> editor among linux users is 'vim'; vi iMproved. Right now, Joe does DS> fine. You'll find vi is regularly the default editor on most Linux software packages. It's one of those things that every software author expects will be installed. Like Ed in AmigaOS I suppose. [snip] DS> An impressive editor that's fast & nice to use! I ran across the name DS> in linux.org site doing lessons/beginner! I'm at lesson10 of 20. DS> There's a lot to learn all of sudden because this AmigaOne! :) Linux does have a steepish learning curve, but it pays off in other ways. It's unlikely for instance that a rogue utility is gunna take out your whole OS, like it could under AmigaOS , or worse still Windows. I think it's a bit rude of the PTBs in calling it an AmigaOne without first supplying an AmigaOS for it though. CH>> ... I've got news for ya, not only is GOD a woman, she uses an AMIGA. DS> But, is it an AmigaOne? I doubt it. She couldn't afford one. Cache Ya, Craig. .... Amithlon: The speed of x86 and the elegance of AmigaOS! --- Mail Manager 1.22x/n #1390 * Origin: I think. Therefore I think, I think. (3:634/383.0) .