On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 21:41, Yuri de Groot wrote: > On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 03:12, Martin B�hr wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 02:23:48PM +1200, Yuri de Groot wrote: > > > My father (61) finds linux difficult because he has moved from > > > text-based DOS environment to a GUI KDE Linux environment, > > > and all this new-fangled point and click stuff bothers him! > > > > then by all means, show him the unix commandline and give him an > > environment that he is comfortable with. > > I have yet to find a decent console-based word-processor. WordPerfect is/was the console word-processor of choice. There used to be versions for virtually every computer you could think of. Apparently you could shoe-horn the versions intended to work on SCO-unix onto a Linux machine. iirc 5.1 is the magic number for console versions. It was especially popular with the legal-eagle folks.
> > one of the things mentioned was how my grandma uses linux on the > > commandline with emacs, LaTeX and mutt. > > Does emacs have wordstar bindings? That would be neat. According to the emacs manual:- `M-x wordstar-mode' provides a major mode with WordStar-like key bindings. However you may not want to get involved with the complexities of emacs because there is the joe-editor:- http://sourceforge.net/projects/joe-editor/ The first line of the web site proclaims:- "Joe is world-famous Wordstar like text editor." > He started microcomputing on CPM with WordStar. > (He started computing with old PDPs and stuff, before he became a luddite). He must have used TECO then. That was an experience! > Ideally, I would set up DOSEmu, with MS-Works for DOS (I am licensed) > and set it up so that DOS thinks there is a PS printer attached to LPT1: > and it gets caught by a linux printer driver. How do I set that up? > > Dad used MS-Works for DOS for quite a while. > > Can I set up DOSEmu as his default shell? I do not know, try it and let the list know. You could add it to his .bashrc so that it starts automatically when he logs in. the dosbox emulator is much better/faster at DOS screen emulation. http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/ Why not make the 'puter dual boot linux and DOS? -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
