30 Nov
2002
30 Nov
'02
10:46 a.m.
Version 5.5 NOS - seal is intact 5-1/4" floppies - Complete in the box !!
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30 Nov
30 Nov
noon
Quothe phillipmilks(a)juno.com, from writings of Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 07:53:05PM -0500:
Version 5.5 NOS - seal is intact 5-1/4" floppies
- Complete in the box !!
Isn't it difficult to sell something like that when Emacs and LaTeX
are free? :-)
Somewhere around here I may still have photocopies of the printed
documentation from for that version, which a former employer allowed
me to clone for my own use. After using it a while, and growing tired
of the bugs and other annoyances, I soon began learning about more
pleasant and useful alternatives, such as text editors combined with
software like nroff, runoff. Idocs MINT, Lout, TeX/LaTeX etc. and
settled on the TeX/LaTeX and Emacs combination running on UNIX boxes.
Wow, I'm glad that I was never suckered into purchasing a copy of that
overpriced WP software. :-)
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http://www.rddavis.org beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.
1 Dec
1 Dec
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1:28 p.m.
On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 21:29, R. D. Davis wrote:
Quothe phillipmilks(a)juno.com, from writings of Sat,
Nov 30, 2002 at 07:53:05PM -0500:
Who needs Emacs when you have vi?
Version 5.5 NOS - seal is intact 5-1/4"
floppies - Complete in the box !!
Isn't it difficult to sell something like that when Emacs and LaTeX
are free? :-) 
1:37 p.m.
Jeffrey H. Ingber wrote:
On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 21:29, R. D. Davis wrote:
I like LE best.
Quothe phillipmilks(a)juno.com, from writings of
Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 07:53:05PM -0500:
Who needs Emacs when you have vi?
Version 5.5 NOS - seal is intact 5-1/4"
floppies - Complete in the box !!
Isn't it difficult to sell something like that when Emacs and LaTeX
are free? :-)
2:06 p.m.
New subject: The advantages of using ed (was: WordStar Professional For sale)
Quothe ben franchuk, from writings of Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 08:37:27PM -0700:
Jeffrey H. Ingber wrote:
What about the ed editor? After all, one never knows when one will
have to write something when the termcap database is hosed or if one
just feels like using a printing console to get that good old "using a
typewriter" feeling. Hey, don't laugh, it's a known, hypothetically
99% effective, cure for writer's block! :-)
Very well then, I'll revise what I wrote earlier to: "Shouldn't it
difficult to sell something like that when [some random text editor]
and LaTeX are free?" :-)
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Copyright (C) 2002 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals:
All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature &
rdd(a)rddavis.org 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such
http://www.rddavis.org beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.
On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 21:29, R. D. Davis wrote:
I like LE best. Quothe phillipmilks(a)juno.com, from writings of
Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at
07:53:05PM -0500:
Who needs Emacs when you have vi?
Version 5.5 NOS - seal is intact 5-1/4"
floppies - Complete in the box !!
Isn't it difficult to sell something like that when Emacs and LaTeX
are free? :-)
2 Dec
2 Dec
9:35 a.m.
New subject: The advantages of using ed (was: WordStar Professional For sale)
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12:37 p.m.
New subject: The advantages of using ed (was: WordStar Professional For sale)
Quothe Tony Duell, from writings of Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 11:34:21PM +0000:
Can I use a hand card punch (with a key for each row)
or one of those
little paper tape editing blocks, please. The latter together with a
splicing jig [1] and splicing tapes, of course.
That sounds like fun, and. it's quite practical as well for very
dependable long-term storage. :-)
[1] If you don't have one of these, it's wort
remembering that paper tape
Alas, I've not collected one of these yet.
Well, tape and card punches aren't always free,
but equally they don't
come with unreasonable licensing agreements :-)
Which makes them far more useful than rubbish like Micro$oft Word or
Word Imperfect. :-)
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Copyright (C) 2002 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals:
All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature &
rdd(a)rddavis.org 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such
http://www.rddavis.org beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.
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