Re: Ping: DD

> I use an Olde-Fashionede Unix shell account (it used to be dial-up but
> with modern technology I telnet into it) upon which I run trn; it is
> configured so that when I press 'F' to reply my editor is pico.
>

Do you still do your web-surfing with Lynx? :-)

Ahhh, yes, DocDwarf, your RealProgrammer[tm] credentials are
impeccable...

As for me, my tastes tilt(ed) toward dialing out with Kermit, instead
of cu, but I haven't done that for a while... sometimes I miss that
Frog. He is so Lovable.

In article <9b2ca8cc-8266-41ab-919c-67e46ae233f7@o22g2000hsh.googlegroups.co
m>,
Kenneth  <klshafer@worldnet.att.net> wrote: 
>
>Do you still do your web-surfing with Lynx? :-)

More that I should, probably... it's just... *there*, you know, and so
fast.

>
>Ahhh, yes, DocDwarf, your RealProgrammer[tm] credentials are
>impeccable...

Pish, tosh and piffle... that I use pico instead of vi places me Beyond
the Pale in some folks' books.  I am Olde Schoole enough so that I prefer
columns of numbers to graphs, charts and diagrams... but even during Olde
Schoole days there were folks who made better sense with and out of lines
and colors than I could.

I recall, back when I was a student of chemistry, spending time with a
lass who was studying art... at times we would sit together and do
homework.  She'd grab a piece of charcoal and a sheet of paper, move her
hand... and there would appear something that actually... *looked* like
something; I'd stare, in amazement, and say 'This is wonderful... how do
you *do* that?'

I'd be doing something like... balancing stochastic equations, looking at
charts, scribbling out lines combining capital and lower-case letters,
subscripts, superscripts, parentheses and equal-signs... and she'd watch
me flip through pages, look up at the ceiling, and generate a flow of
these symbols...

... and she'd stare, in amazement, and say 'This is wonderful... how do
you *do* that?'

Apples are not oranges, bananas are not nectarines, grapes and
pineapple-cubes are likewise disparate... and yet, at times, Life can be a
wonderful fruit-salad.

DD