Re: TEST

Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine wrote:
> 
> In article <33A...@nospam.sm.luth.se>,
> Veronica Karlsson <e93...@nospam.sm.luth.se> writes:
> >> Der.....I'm not sure I follow this, but I'll try.  If you are in
> >> a graphical/windowing environment such as Windoze or Unix X-Windoze
> >> then you can copy onto the clipboard and paste into a simple
> >> graphical text editor such as notepad.
> >
> >Eh? "Notepad"??? Never heard of it... (is it a PC thing?)
> >
> Notepad is Windoze on IBM PC.  It works in a windowing
> environment but is only a very simple text editor without
> fonts -- everything is shown typewriter style.  If you
> have any sort of decent windowing environment (Win, Mac or
> X-Windows) you should be able to copy-and=paste from the
> newsreader window into a simple editor window. Shouldn't you?

If you had read just a little bit further down in that post you would
have seen that I _have_ tried not one but two "simple text editors" and
it looked exactly the same there....

> 
> OTOH if you work in a keyboard-only environment, then surely
> you can just save stuff into a file from the newsreader and
> open it in a simple text editor which should show it typewriter style.
> 

don't worry, cutting-and-pasting is _much_ easier for me than it is for
PC or Mac people... :)

> >I have a "simple graphical text editor" called "emacs" and it looks like
> >shit th
> >>
> >> Actually I don't see why you can't just view it in typewriter font
> >> there.
> >
> >"font"? In unix? you must be joking!
> >
> >> But, if you want to, you can then save it as a file and view
> >> that under Dos, or under dumb nongraphical keyboard-Unix, using
> >> the text editor there.

-- 
:)
Veronica Karlsson
( e93...@sm.luth.se  http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ )
( llizard's fanclub:  http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/llpages )

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