Re: eeeditor

["Raphael Tennenbaum" raphael@xxxxxxxx]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:41:23 -0500, Bob Zimmerman wrote:

>For what it's worth, I've been on Linux fulltime for about 16 months, using Debian
with Dosbox to run Xywrite 3.55, and have never had this problem. In fact, I haven't
had ANY crashes at all in connection with running Xywrite in Dosbox. And I have an
extremely customized keyboard, both in Linux AND in Xywrite (which is one of the
reasons I switched: Linux let me configure the keyboard to my liking, for all
programs).

Ctrl-C doesn't seems to crash DE in a full-screen session, yet at least. and
incidentally, using full-screen XyWrite on the eeePC's 10-inch screen leaves
absolutely nothing to be desired, just be sure and specify the right font in the
configuration file.

can you print from XyWrite in Dosbox? I seem to remember some back-and-forth
about this a few months ago. I had DB running in Suse just fine but moved to DE
according to the wisdom of the list.

>All-in-all, it has been a very happy experience. I just wish sometimes that I was
more of computer geek and could do more to tweak my system. Since I'd rather
spend my time writing, however, I'm not, and never will be.

I am not a tweaker, either. Linux is just a platform for me to do other things --
mostly to write with XyWrite, to reliably backup 1) what I've done that day, and 2)
the entire system, so that in case something catastrophic happens, I can be back
up without a hitch inside an hour or a day if I need to buy a new hard disk. OS/2
has given me that in spades, and now Linux will.

-rafe t.