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The Thursday 2006-11-09 at 19:03 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote: > > > > When I code something, I do it in Pascal. > > > > > > I thought real programmers write code at the command line: in DOStalk, > > > copy con filename.exe > > > > > > :-) > > > > X'-) > > > > It's been a long time since I heard that one. > > I wonder how many here even actually know what that one is anymore. :P Not many, I guess. But I remember buying the old pcmagazine and typing rows of hexadecimal as "data" lines for a basic program that would then create a tiny .com program like "ted.com". There were things like modems, I had heard, but a transatlantic phone call to get a file was totally out of the question for a student like me. Pretty close to "copy con..." I guess ;-) > > That's why I don't use Vi. Too many bad memories of edlin, followed by copy > con. > > Next thing you'll be doing is telling me to cat something. Nope! I come from Dos times, I sharpened my teeth on it, not on windows, nor on unix. When I discovered Linux I was very happy to find the "dos" that never were! I mean, I could do in a command line things I had been waiting for but never came to be in Dos. I still have difficulties with some pitholes the linux command line has for dos oldtimers. You know, older programmers could have a joke like real programming was done with physical switches; there were old computers you actually had to load the initial boot program into memory, programming word by word flipping switches. Or so I have been told. Cute :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD4DBQFFVJ6ftTMYHG2NR9URAoe5AJwI5PG0mAYGzxYzpsqwAZSoeYM/SQCY5Ruf vt8bhDdWDV9MpQGgOOo4ZQ== =ZEqE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]