Can I do it to Conduit?

O.K. I had been playing with 6800 and 6809 systems by the time the PC came out.

That can be deadly. :-)

Yep! I used three machines with 8" floppys.

One of the most stupid command designs in the Microsoft world. (Actually, I guess that it came from CP/M in the floppy days.

Of course. That was before the "Are you sure" (with exclamation marks) days. :-)

It didn't take that long in those days -- even with such a slow CPU.

As did I at work when forced to work with MS-DOS/PC-DOS.

Yep -- or at the minimum, a cassette interface and BASIC in ROM.

O.K. That was the cup-shaped type wheel wasn't it? I was using the Hytype I and Hytype II at home.

:-)

Mine started about 1976 when I got my first machine at home -- the Altair 680b (6800 CPU). I've actually still got it.

Enjoy, DoN.

But PC-DOS *was* CP/M -- ported to the 8086/8088 by Seattle Computer (IIRC) and sold to Microsoft when IBM and Digital Research (CP/M company) had disagreements*. The first version of PC-DOS still had CP/M (Digital Reasarch) copyright notices in some of the commands. :-) Kind of interesting given how upset Bill Gates was at people using his BASIC interpreter on home-built systems without paying for it. :-)

Enjoy, DoN.

slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (SunOS) shows asterisks* slrn/0.9.8.1 (FreeBSD) shows asterisks slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Debian) doesn't show asterisks

So, I guess it's not the pl1 that's at fault, but something Debian did. (*) and _presumably_ underscores as well. Guess we'll see.

Open another instance of it, and have each opened to a different page?

White Mountain Region, NH, close to the VT border.

This was the snowiest winter in 135 years. I had the snowblower out 11 times in December, the snowiest month, then only 6 times the rest of the winter.

Before xfig, I used GeoDraw, also a vector drawing program, but once I put DOS in the rearview, xfig was the only thing that remotely resembled it. I guess I've only been playing with xfig about 10 years.

Oh yeah, and sometimes when she catches sight of the mouse or even the cursor moving around, she'll chase it with her paw. That's always fun too.

This one came scratching at our door night after night. I figured if she's coming every night anyway, I might as well give her some food and water. That was in NM desert where the water was attacked even more ferociously than the food. The dog is Apache and the cat is Navajo. Both of them chose us rather than the other way round.

O.K

Yes, it does -- with a different color as well. I can't see it while in the editor, but IIRC the asterisks produce blue on black (rather difficult to read), and the underscores make the text and the underscores light blue (still on black) -- a lot easier to read.

I tend to expand the viewer program (whatever it is) to full screen or near that, because my eyes are getting rather tired.

O.K. I was in Caanan NH back around 1960 for a couple of winters. I didn't stay. :-)

Interesting.

O.K. I'm not quite sure how long I've been using xfig, but I've been using X11 starting with a Sun 2/120 which I got about 1985 I think. I've used xfig since I discovered it -- though the more recent versions seem to have picked up some extra features.

I remember our first cat (who adopted us, not the other way around) used to like it when I turned on the self-test mode on an ADM-3a terminal built from a kit. What that did was send the cursor racing across the bottom of the screen, filling it with sequential ASCII characters, producing a scrolling barber-pole pattern. She was determined to catch that cursor. :-)

And then you took them to New Hampshire? How cruel can you be? :-)

Enjoy, DoN.

I meant middle-click. That's how it is in XFCE and Blackbox anyway. Maybe it was right click in fvwm...

I have 9 desktops in XFCE on the Debian box, so I only ever have 2 or 3 things running on any desktop. Blackbox on the FreeBSD machine only has 6 desktops, since I run a lot fewer X apps over there. Generally the first four go something like this:

Desktop 1 - web and an xterm, often running top Desktop 2 - tails of logs (generally 4 or 5) Desktop 3 - mail and news Desktop 4 - a couple of root xterms

I didn't even get to NH til '66... from Puerto Rico.

Ha! I'd like to have seen that! ;-) In Maine, we had a '77(?) Pinto wagon that I tried to do something like that with and ended up with the engine compartment packed full of snow.

The add-bookmarks-to-acrobat-reader method given at

-jiw

O.K. It is going to paper as I type. :-) We'll see how it works. There was no point in staying there and trying it directly because my browser is configured to use xpdf by default. :-)

Thanks, DoN.