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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Ron Clarke wrote:

Lee wrote:

> > I'd say that I am probably the closest (because I don't mess
> > around with  printing or MIME or video or audio or PDF/PS or
> > Windows' files or a GUI browser...)
>
>   I would guess that that is because you don't need to use those things
> for your job/career/education or amusement.

I translate for a living and people send me scanned files converted to pdf 
format (or sometimes WORD format) which I can either view while 
translating (using two computers since I translate in DOS due to the lack 
of non-GUI linux wordprocessors and the hopelessness of dosemu) or print 
with ghostscript directly or with netpbm after converting from pdf to pbm.

I research information on the internet and run into the occasional site 
that won't work with lynx or even links due to javascript so have to use 
Opera.

I would listen to internet audio instead of the radio while online but it 
slows down my already slow connection.  I might do it anyway in the summer 
to generate a bit less heat.

I don't get the reference to MIME, which is a compression format.

> > but I _do_ have development tools that add scores of megabytes to the
> > size of BL.
>
>  OK, I guess I was wrong about your amusement.  :)

;=)

> Regards,
>         Ron

Sindi