X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,9036569887155251 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Veronica Karlsson Subject: Re: TEST Date: 1997/06/16 Message-ID: <33A59293.167EB0E7@nospam.sm.luth.se>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 248883301 References: <339FEAB4.41C67EA6@sm.luth.se.nospam> <33A19FF7.788C@rot.mapson.sdrawkcab.daer> <5nul7v$cau@pandora.cs.utwente.nl> <33A3F515.794BDF32@nospam.sm.luth.se> Organization: Junk e-mail gladly reported (I have got credit for chucking several spammers out of their accounts) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine wrote: > > In article <33A3F515.794BDF32@nospam.sm.luth.se>, > Veronica Karlsson 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-vkn@sm.luth.se http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ ) ( llizard's fanclub: http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/llpages )