-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/08 12:38, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 03:20:36PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 01:48:13PM -0500, Jonathan Jacobs wrote: >>> I will also tell her that I will install Debian and migrate her email >>> and word documents over for her. >> Enjoy teaching her LaTex while she's at it. May as well get her away >> from "word" into a real system. > > this is not necessarily as inappropriate as others have > suggested. *My* mother (wild generalizations based on one anecdotal > case follows...) would likely greatly appreciate a CLI based > editor. All totalled, she has probably processed 10x more words in WP > 5.1 or so than in all the gui editors combined. Its highly likely that > an older person may be more comfortable in that environment just from > past experience. I should probably talk to her about that and see if > she wants to move "back" to something like that...
e3 and joe emulate WordStar, if she's *really* old-school. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Working with women is a pain in the a**." My wife -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH3wdKS9HxQb37XmcRAnj9AJsETbC1Ajr+yhv/WhCkgQ4L2NlEDQCfX/eh gd/FVsNCLudxgRDXqty8eh8= =7VLT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]