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["Greg Mayman" <gmone AT tpg.com.au>]

On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 04:03:04 +0000 (UTC), sindi keesan wrote:

> I once counted keystrokes needed to use an HTML editor versus a text
> editor.  You can guess which won.

I once downloaded an HTML editor, but I never bothered trying to learn
how to use it.

Have you ever counted the bytes in the output of one of these editors
versus bare bones HTML from a text editor?

> I also use DOS, for wordprocessing, a database program, and to print mail
> from my shell account, and for CAD.  THe linux programs are too new and
> therefore too big and bulky.

>> But No, I will not be totally abandoning DOS.
> Another reason to choose BL and use loadlin.

Yes, ma'am!

> We use a power strip.  WIth an AT power supply you can plug things into
> the computer but not with ATX.

That's what I'm doing with the DOS/BL computer. With the Win comp, it is
powered from one of those strips plugged into the wall outlet.

>> But the switch on the wall outlet does the job on my Win
>> computer, and also controls the scanner/printer and the monitor
>> for that comp.
> If you want them all to come on at once.

I want the monitor, of course.

And it is too complicated to arrange a second switched outlet for the
printer/scanner.



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