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 fromthen by all means, show him the unix commandline and give him an
text-based DOS environment to a GUI KDE Linux environment,
and all this new-fangled point and click stuff bothers him!
environment that he is comfortable with.
I have yet to find a decent console-based word-processor.
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. He started microcomputing on CPM with WordStar. (He started computing with old PDPs and stuff, before he became a luddite).
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?
Yuri
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.
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.
He started microcomputing on CPM with WordStar.
(He started computing with old PDPs and stuff, before he became a luddite).
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?
Yuri
For an ex DECman....
roff/troff are successors to runoff, so that's your wp sorted ( let's be honest, it's no worse than hand crafting html ).
For editors, teco is available at ftp://ftp.mindlink.net/pub/teco ( our game was to type in your name, and see if the computer was still up and running! ). More usefully, edt is available at http://www.atl.external.lmco.com/proj/csim/gui/edt/edt_linux.tar.gz ( although finding a vt100 keypad might be a bit more difficult! ).
Cheers,
Steve
