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[Day Brown <daybrown AT hypertech.net>]

keesan2 AT cyberspace.org wrote:
> 
> Jim says he was able to use the 'back quotes' with name=`function` to set
> an environmental variable equal to $name.  But he thanks for you giving
> him another way to do this.  He is really learning a lot from basiclinux.
> 
> He is trying to find more information on dosemu and says less does not
> work on HOWTO files.  This is probably because we have not installed
> howto.tgz.  He wants to get his DOS text editor to work under
> linux rather than rewrite it in C instead of assembly language.
Waitaminit. If BL boots from dos, then why not use dos to edit, and not
worry about a dosemu? But the other thing is- can we download the
man/info/howto Linux docs in a form you could access with a DOS text
editor?

I routinely cut & paste from the dos README.DOC files what I need to run
an app, and discard the rest, so that when I have to RTFM, I dont have
nearly so much manual to wade thru. The text mode text editors that I've
seen for linux, dont even have color pulldown scrollbar menus.