Re: A few more things and I can kiss windows good bye.

2002-10-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
Many of those dos basic interpreters and compilers don't do their screen writes in a civilized fashion. direct screen writing software can't be used by dos-emu. Also, direct screen writing software can't be used by any but the most expensive and up-to-date screen readers. On Sun, 20 Oct 2002,

Re: A few more things and I can kiss windows good bye.

2002-10-20 Thread Hal MacArgle
Greetings: Excuse if this is redundant - but has anyone mentioned running any of the DOS versions of BASIC using 'DOSEMU??? Some of the BASIC compilers, if needed, may be a problem but otherwise should be AOK... Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 8.0 (2.4.13) [EMA

Re: A few more things and I can kiss windows good bye.

2002-10-19 Thread cr
On Thursday 01 January 1970 12:00, Heimo Claasen wrote: > Hmm, yeah - precisely: > > Well surely this is the same for any other programming language in Linux? > > (By the way, that annoying paternalistic approach is found on Windoze > > networks too > > The more I get used to (which doesn't say

Re: A few more things and I can kiss windows good bye.

2002-10-18 Thread Heimo Claasen
Hmm, yeah - precisely: > Well surely this is the same for any other programming language in Linux? > (By the way, that annoying paternalistic approach is found on Windoze > networks too The more I get used to (which doesn't say befriended with) that Linux box the more I tend to appreciate the

Re: A few more things and I can kiss windows good bye.

2002-10-18 Thread cr
On Thursday 01 January 1970 12:00, Heimo Claasen wrote: > As Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There ae some implementations of BASIC for Linux, but I know of no > > working VB implementation. If you do, a reference to a URL would be > > helpful. > > Yes, there is a quite advanced Basic

Re: A few more things and I can kiss windows good bye.

2002-10-18 Thread Calin Szonyi
- Original Message - From: Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 00:26:27 -0400 (EDT) To: Paul Kraus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: A few more things and I can kiss windows good bye. > Last year I read about a version of visualbasic available to run

Re: A few more things and I can kiss windows good bye.

2002-10-16 Thread Steven Smith
> 1. Microsoft .NET framework. I know Microsoft is a bad word in most of > these forums/lists but it is a great web development package. Allowing > for true object oriented programming. I am also already familiar with > it. Will the framework run on a Linux machine. The Microsoft one doesn't, as f

RE: A few more things and I can kiss windows good bye.

2002-10-16 Thread Ray Olszewski
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 10/15/2002 11:46 PM >Subject: Re: A few more things and I can kiss windows good bye. > >At 12:26 AM 10/16/02 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > >Last year I read about a version of visualbasic available to

Re: A few more things and I can kiss windows good bye.

2002-10-16 Thread cr
On Wednesday 16 October 2002 17:26, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Last year I read about a version of visualbasic available to run on linux > and think it was put under the gnu gpl license. Thing is, I don't know if > it runs only in the gui environment or can run in the text environment. > If it runs i

Re: A few more things and I can kiss windows good bye.

2002-10-15 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 12:26 AM 10/16/02 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: >Last year I read about a version of visualbasic available to run on linux >and think it was put under the gnu gpl license. Thing is, I don't know if >it runs only in the gui environment or can run in the text environment. >If it runs in the text e

Re: A few more things and I can kiss windows good bye.

2002-10-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
Last year I read about a version of visualbasic available to run on linux and think it was put under the gnu gpl license. Thing is, I don't know if it runs only in the gui environment or can run in the text environment. If it runs in the text environment, the government could provide blind progra

Re: A few more things and I can kiss windows good bye.

2002-10-15 Thread James Miller
On 15 Oct 2002, Paul Kraus wrote: > I know that it is supposed to be cross-platform combatable. This sentence belongs in the M$ vs Linux freudian slips hall of fame. (Paul's spelling sensibilities turned the word "compatible" [complementary, harmonious] into "combatable" [well-suited for comba

A few more things and I can kiss windows good bye.

2002-10-15 Thread Paul Kraus
Well what started out as a cost effective experiment has turned into an obsession. Linux seems to do everything that I want but it does it better Well that's not fair not better but it allows more control and the reliability is perfect. There are only two things that have me not wanting to get