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.

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