The Golden Rule: he who has the gold makes the rule. But I don't use it when it's not mandatory.
Would that be vi, AKA the editor from Hell? It has the advantage that if you have to use a random *ix system, there will almost certainly be some version available. If not vi, was it emacs? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Bob Bridges [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2023 9:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Has anyone Fair point, but my clients hire me as a mainframe geek. I do know other things, but most of my income is from mainframe security, with occasional forays into coding for MS Office. So from my point of view, "the real thing" is MS Office. My oldest daughter is a Linux fan; I've never used it. I once spent an agonizing half-hour trying to help a Unix programmer code a program in a language I know using some kind of Unix editor that was so unintuitive I could hardly accomplish anything. I wouldn't mind getting used to it - I'm not tired of learning yet - but life is short and I seem to be picking up other new skills instead, at least for now. --- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* A demonstration that rich felons go unhung is not an argument for freeing poor felons, but for redoubling efforts against rich felons. -William F Buckley, _Four Reforms_ (1973) */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2023 22:03 "Real thing" depends on point of view. What if your client is Linux-centric? --- On Tue, 15 Aug 2023 16:58:27 -0400, Bob Bridges wrote: > ... My little sister reminds me from time to time that OpenOffice is just > as good, but I don't want to write something for a client and then find out > that it isn't QUITE the same as the real thing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
