Hallo Kees!   
      
    MK>> Hopefully the above makes sense.  ;-)   
      
    KvE> If your remark is about Vi, then it does.   
      
   Yes it was but after thinking about it I realized it could also apply to life.   
      
    KvE> But even in these 20 years I have mastered less then 10 commands.   
      
   That sounds about right.  I've been using it off and on for about 30 years now   
   and started using it on Solaris.  I used it to write manpages for in house   
   programs.  There wasn't much documentation for much of anything back then.    
   Two books I had were for C and Fortran for scientists and engineers.  Nothing   
   for vi that I ever saw until later on Linux for vim.   
      
    KvE> As far as documentation goes, donot you have access to the man   
    KvE> pages.   
      
   Now I do but not back when I was teaching myself C and Unix.  Before that it   
   was VAX/VMS which I had a 10-20 page typed document for.  I had to learn that   
   the hard way as well but had a bit of advantage as I had a book for Fortran   
   which helped quite a bit.  I wrote many utilities for retrieving and   
   formatting data to and from nine track tape drives and then later on for   
   external scsi exabyte drives for Sparc stations.   
      
    KvE> I usually search for examples on the web.   
      
   There was no web back then.  In fact I recall when the www first started.  The   
   first web interface I encountered was lynx on a dumb terminal and the html   
   output on it was all screwed up due to the default 80 character width of lynx   
   on a terminal that couldn't display it properly.  I never understood the   
   attraction of html until seeing the gui version on xwindows.  I think it was   
   mozilla but maybe an earlier form of it.  It might come to me later.   
      
   I don't miss those days at all.   
      
    KvE> I suppose that is age as well, short term memory goes first.   
      
   Yes.  I can relate to that as well as some long term memory such as what   
   mozilla may or may not have been called before mozilla.  :-/   
      
   Het leven is goed,   
   Maurice   
      
   ... Huil niet om mij, ik heb vi.   
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