Subj : A Brand New Look!
To   : Kees van Eeten
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Tue May 22 2018 12:45:27

Hallo Kees!

 MK>> Hopefully the above makes sense.  ;-)

 KvE> If your remark is about Vi, then it does.

Yes it was but after thinking about it I realized it could also apply to life.

 KvE> But even in these 20 years I have mastered less then 10 commands.

That sounds about right.  I've been using it off and on for about 30 years now 
and started using it on Solaris.  I used it to write manpages for in house 
programs.  There wasn't much documentation for much of anything back then.  Two 
books I had were for C and Fortran for scientists and engineers.  Nothing for 
vi that I ever saw until later on Linux for vim.

 KvE> As far as documentation goes, donot you have access to the man
 KvE> pages.

Now I do but not back when I was teaching myself C and Unix.  Before that it 
was VAX/VMS which I had a 10-20 page typed document for.  I had to learn that 
the hard way as well but had a bit of advantage as I had a book for Fortran 
which helped quite a bit.  I wrote many utilities for retrieving and formatting 
data to and from nine track tape drives and then later on for external scsi 
exabyte drives for Sparc stations.

 KvE> I usually search for examples on the web.

There was no web back then.  In fact I recall when the www first started.  The 
first web interface I encountered was lynx on a dumb terminal and the html 
output on it was all screwed up due to the default 80 character width of lynx 
on a terminal that couldn't display it properly.  I never understood the 
attraction of html until seeing the gui version on xwindows.  I think it was 
mozilla but maybe an earlier form of it.  It might come to me later.

I don't miss those days at all.

 KvE> I suppose that is age as well, short term memory goes first.

Yes.  I can relate to that as well as some long term memory such as what 
mozilla may or may not have been called before mozilla.  :-/

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

.... Huil niet om mij, ik heb vi.
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