Subj : Look ma!  No hands!
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Kees van Eeten
Date : Mon Jan 14 2019 15:32:58

Hello Maurice!

14 Jan 19 13:07, you wrote to me:

 MK> One thing for sure is that they don't solve anything and more often create
 MK> more deficiencies.  The lack of a '+' character for offsets east of prime
 MK> meridian is a case in point as well as the so-called level in the CHRS
 MK> kludge.  However I do see a need for identification of the 8 bit character
 MK> sets although I wish the FTSC would have used proper aliases as given by
 MK> those who own them.  LATIN1 is a very good example.

 We had that discussion before. It is almost line a chicken and egg discussion.

 KvE>> In het Brabantse land.

 MK> They stole my line!!!  Tsk, tsk.  I did see somewhere that someone
 MK> unsuccessfully tried to sue over palagerism.

 Any way, they are the first two lines of a Dutch song.

Geef mij maar een bord balkenbrij.

 MK> Your loss.  It remains the best editor ever created, although when I first
 MK> encountered vi I absolutely hated it.  That was a very long time ago in a
 MK> land far, far away.

 This is Balkenbrij : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkenbrij

 I have used  Vi, ever since I got a copy of the  KMS-Toolkit for Dos.
 But I only use a small subset of its possibilities. The same goes for Bash.

 Altough in the times of the KMS-toolkit itr was probably the Korn-shell.

Kees

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