-=> 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,   
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    RL> --- MBSE BBS v0.37.6 (GNU/Linux-i386)   
   =:o   
      
   ... If you got an AmigaOne, you'll be on target!   
   --- MultiMail/Linux v0.43   
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