Text 3528, 70 rader
Skriven 2012-09-07 15:57:01 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
   Kommentar till text 3517 av Roger Nelson (1:3828/7.0)
Ärende: Fidonews Vol29 no36 FrontPage
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27 Jun 14 15:09, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:

 RW>>> A really nice piece of software to use for editing text files is
 RW>>> had in XTREE or the windows version of it called ZTREE.

 ml>> xtree and ztree are non-existent on *nix...

 RW>> That's too bad. Ztree is a great file manipulator. It is easily the
 RW>> best thing I've found for changing attributes, changing hidden to
 RW>> seeable, changiing read-only to editable, changing dates, hex
 RW>> editing, etc. Copying files to different folders and making a
 RW>> folder to receive files if there isn't one at the destination.

 RN> I can do that using an 8k COM file and I've been using it for years.
 RN> I got it out of OC Magazine back in the late 80s-early 90s

You could have gotten the same thing from MSDOS in v5, but it isn't as
robust as Xtree/Ztree. I've only named a few of the features that this
program can do.

 RW>> This was the program that introduced me to 'read only, hidden'
 RW>> files. My first move was to change all of those file RASH
 RW>> attributes on such files as MSDOS.SYS and such and deleting them on
 RW>> my first PC-286. I found out very quickly that in doing so, I just
 RW>> deleted the files used by MSDOS 3.3 to run the system. 8^)

 RW>> I'll bet the tech who reinstalled those files under warranty was
 RW>> laughing his ass off at the novice who deleted them. That was 1986
 RW>> and we've come a long way together, Xtree, Ztree and I.

 ml>>  mc (midnight commander, a norton command clone) is a popular tool,

 RW>> I wouldn't trust Norton with doing anything with my computers. I
 RW>> was in too much of a hurry to get XP working the way I wanted it
 RW>> and overlooked a check box that said, intall Norton antivirus
 RW>> yes/no...had I paid attention it woulddn't have been installed.
 RW>> I'll have to go back and remove it when I get XP and other software
 RW>> and hardware working the way I want it.

 RW>> Microsoft's version of malware and antivirus software works so much
 RW>> better.

 ml>> though... but there are many *nix folks that do not use such...
 ml>> besides, the only problem is that the files seem to be needing to
 ml>> use the DOS CRLF EOL instead of the *nix LF EOL... something that a
 ml>> quick run of UNIX2DOS can easily handle ;)

 RW>> I've found that any kind of *nix isn't worth my time. OS/2 was a
 RW>> real pain, Red Hat was too. I bought a cheap desktop (really slow
 RW>> AMD processor) that had a version of *nix on it that was workable,
 RW>> but I NIXed that and installed W98 on it. That slug-machine will
 RW>> get the W2k drive once I get around to fixing it. Two slugs working
 RW>> together should make for a really happy system.

 RN> Friends didn't let friends use RedHat.

I kept that under my 'hat' until today. RedHat, manual and its disks went
with a lot of other old PC boards and drives to the Goodwill store in
2005...

                R\%/itt


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