Text 3406, 68 rader
Skriven 2005-09-24 18:01:11 av Russell Tiedt (5:7105/1)
   Kommentar till text 3405 av Maurice Kinal (1:340/401.1)
Ärende: 2.6.13-ck1
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Hello Maurice.

23 Sep 05 19:36, you wrote to me:

 RT>> Gzip and zless sound good, and if the vim macros are well
 RT>> written, that should do just fine ...

 MK> That is what I am thinking.  However I like the idea of MBSE to use
 MK> the joe editor on the BBS to do the same sort of thing, albiet the end
 MK> result probably employing the more DOS-think format(s) such as JAM.
 MK> That is where I start having an issue with BBS packages as they tend
 MK> to lean far too much towards pleasing the DOS-think crowd.  Oh well.
 MK> I suppose 'the customer is always right' ideology is coming into play
 MK> there but this particular 'customer' doesn't like that ideology one
 MK> little bit since I'd rather employ Unix-think when dealing with a
 MK> localized archiving scheme.  Externally transmitted garbage is a whole
 MK> other can of worms ... sometimes even literally when speaking
 MK> DOS-think.  I honestly believe that needs to change no matter what the
 MK> target OS is but I don't get to decide that.

Well, joe writes the msg. to a tempory file which gets tossed to the msgbase 
when joe exits, what ever msg storage is used, text file, msgbase 
(Squish/JAM/SQL) does not matter, same method can be used, matters not which 
editor is used either. "joe" has the advantage that it understands WordStar 
commands, and can be configered so that it does not shell out to the OS.

As for the customer always being right, well, that carries only so far, as the 
customer is worth keeping as a customer, beyond that he is toast ... .

As for external garbage it is a case of, "Spock, put up the shields, will ya'" 
<grin>

 MK>>> I am not sure I've ever compiled fastlst.  I do have smapi
 MK>>> kicking around somewhere.

 RT>> Well if you are using hpt, then it is required ... <grin>

 MK> Right.  Stinkin' dependancies eh?

Ever tried compiling AND installing smapi as a user .... <grin>, figure I am 
going to have to figure out how to build static versions .... <sigh>

 RT>> It turned out to be a long game, but was a pleasant distraction
 RT>> ... must still figure out how to run it under wine tho ....
 RT>> <grin>

 MK> That I know nothing about and for whatever reason am happy to report
 MK> that is indeed the case.  No MS crap on any of my systems, emulation
 MK> or otherwise.  You can keep it.  There is way better pursuits in a
 MK> well thought out Linux system, even gaming if that is what floats your
 MK> boat.  Overpriced for what it is worth methinks but those are often
 MK> the people (the programmers) who know how to squeeze good graphics out
 MK> of a system.  Sometimes they know what they're doing.  Not always.

Well I like this game, and it does not have a native Linux version, it being a 
Micro-Soft game probably explains why no Linux version is available, but if I 
can get around to getting it to run under wine, which I understand is 
possible, I would at least not have to reboot to WINXP to play it with my son 
over the network.

Games programmers not only know how to get the best graphics out of a system, 
they also are not shy about telling you you graphics card doesn't cut it for 
their game. :-)

Russell

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