Re: TEST

Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine wrote:
> 
> In article <5nul7v$ca...@pandora.cs.utwente.nl>,
> Arjan Kenter <ken...@cs.utwente.nl> writes:
> >In article <wcY...@g-grids.demon.co.uk>, salesman <salesman@g-
> >grids.demon.co.uk> writes:
> >[ c-c-cut ]
> >|> The thing on veronica's page is rubbish (no offence you ascii is great).
> >|> Simply paste the above text into notepad, save, open in a dos editor and
> >|> it is a realy good piece of work.
> >
> >How do I paste text into notepad and open in a dos editor from Unix? (And yes,
> >that *is* a relevant question!)

I agree - HOW???

> 
> 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?)

I have a "simple graphical text editor" called "emacs" and it looks like
shit there too... (and the same with another one called "pico")  :(

> 
> 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.
> 

Could somebody please show me what this thing is _supposed_ to look
like?

I have a nice little PC program that somebody once gave me, you can use
it to create a gif image of what shows up on your screen:

http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/pics/progs/grab/

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