> I have stayed with DOS because I *can't tolerate* icons. I am too impatient
> to point and click when a simple keyboard command will do the same thing and
> quicker. It has been more than 60 years since I pointed and said, "Doggie!"
> I (and I imagine that most other computer users also) know what they want to
> do, and looking for icons and guessing what the icons mean is a waste of time.
> I use AutoCad, but not beyond Release 12 because of the Windoze-like
> interfaces of Release 13 and beyond. (You need a 19" monitor so that you
> will have a 10" space in which to draw.) I stopped using the on-screen menus
> of AutoCad about 15 minutes after I installed v.4.2, the first AutoCad that I
> had. As soon as I found that the on-screen menus could be disabled, they
> were.
> I use WordPerfect 5.1(DOS). Although I have WordPerfect 6.x(DOS), I don't
> use it because the interface is too Windoze-like and it takes too much time
> guessing what things do. Similarly, I have one Windoze version of
> WordPerfect which I have never used, except maybe for converting some Word
> file to WP5.1.
> Roger Turk
> Tucson, Arizona USA
This is a man after my own heart! Have you tried Gencad? I love it
for simple 2D drafting because all the commands have keyboard shortcuts.
Ray
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