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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