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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > A suggestion for a smaller editor for BL3.
> > 
> > I just somehow managed to compile E3, written in 
> > assembler language, for linux.  
> 
> e3 was standard on BL1 (ramdisk).  Since it has no
> library dependencies, it also works on BL2 (or any
> other Linux running on i386).

You mean I could just have downloaded it from the Bl1 site, or did I miss 
it at the Bl2 site?  At least I learned how to compile with nasm.
I am still trying to compile lynx-ssl.  It accepted openssl library 
location now but is not happy with ncurses, which I suspect I will need to 
compile for myself.)

Why did you use nano instead of e3 in BL2?
Does the posted e3 include tail?

> > Apparently the symlink from sh to bash does not 
> > invoke echo even though echo is built into bash.   
> 
> Echo will be a separate command in BL3.

Thanks, that should help in compiling.

> 
> > nobody has expressed any interesting in my antiword 0.35 package
> > (James posted it but Steven still has version 0.32 at his site).  
> 
> I'm happy leaving 0.32 there for the time being, in case your
> version fails to work for some people.

Would you rename it so people will know it is not the recent version?
It won't handle the latest formats of WORD.  Maybe you could post them 
both in the same place?  So far 35 has worked for me on simple files.


> > I may try BL1 today if we can get BL1 to hd -did anyone get 
> > around to fixing the link to BL1-hd.tgz 
> 
> I'm fixing it now.  It should be OK by the time you get this
> message.  Let me know if there are any problems.

Great, thanks!  We are working on getting the xternal CD-ROM drive going 
so we can install directly to the laptop computer.  It will be fun using 
the SW.2 CD.

 
> > About 744K file.  I have a copy of the version from over a 
> > year ago but if there is a new one will wait for it.  
> 
> No new version for BL1.  BL1 (and now BL2) are dormant.  All
> of my effort is going into BL3.

It sounds very promising.  Thanks for doing all this work and sharing it.
And answering all our dumb questions, usually politely.  (Sometimes I can 
tell you are a bit exasperated when I ask questions that are already 
answered at the website).

> Cheers,
> Steven