Re: Documentation: DocBook vs. Lyx vs. LaTex vs. texinfo?

2010-12-24 Thread Alan Ackerman
> I liked Kedit on MS-DOS quite a bit. Hum, wonder if I can find that old > software and run it in DosBox? I use Kedit for Windows, which works fine on Windows XP, anyway. It's a commercial product though, not open source. "KEDIT for Windows 1.6 is officially supported on Windows XP, Windows V

Re: A little more script help

2010-12-24 Thread John McKown
Excellent book! I've got it and have read it. On Fri, 2010-12-24 at 11:00 -0500, Henry E Schaffer wrote: > John McKown writes: > > ... I mainly script in UNIX using Perl due to familiarity. And because > > I love regular expressions. ... > > Regular expressions are a very powerful tool - and wel

Re: A little more script help

2010-12-24 Thread Henry E Schaffer
John McKown writes: > ... I mainly script in UNIX using Perl due to familiarity. And because > I love regular expressions. ... Regular expressions are a very powerful tool - and well integrated into Perl - but there is a learning curve. I learned a lot about them from Unix and Perl books - but

Re: A little more script help

2010-12-24 Thread Richard J Moore
I regret throwing out an 3270 APL keyboard. Now if you want to be truly Z-flexible you'd learn PL360. Somewhere I still have a copy of that compiler :-) - - Richard J Moore - FIET, FBCS, CEng, CITP IBM z/VM CP Endicott, Z Optimizer Manchester, Linux Technology Centre Member of the IBM Academy of T

Re: A little more script help

2010-12-24 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 2010-12-24 at 14:10 +, Richard J Moore wrote: > True, that's a consideration. But you have the upper hand as they aren't > there. And let's face it REXX doesn't much to learn. > - - > Richard J Moore - FIET, FBCS, CEng, CITP And, IMO, people should be open to learning new ways. I mainl

Re: A little more script help

2010-12-24 Thread Richard J Moore
True, that's a consideration. But you have the upper hand as they aren't there. And let's face it REXX doesn't much to learn. - - Richard J Moore - FIET, FBCS, CEng, CITP IBM z/VM CP Endicott, Z Optimizer Manchester, Linux Technology Centre Member of the IBM Academy of Technology http://www-03.ib