[Coco] Coco Digest, Vol 49, Issue 23

[Mark Marlette]

Paul,

I scanned your message briefly and smiled.

'I have no desire to learn 27 obscure CNTL codes
to deal with god knows what.  I just want to type.'

But yet you want someone to design, build, manufacture and write 
drivers for a wireless solution.

Just doesn't seem fair...... :)

Mark
Cloud-9



At 8/6/2007 10:52 PM, you wrote:

> >
> > Message: 18
> > Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:18:10 -0400
> > From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
> > Subject: Re: [Coco] Good full screen editor?
> > To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > Message-ID: <200708062318.10738.gene.heskett at verizon.net>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
> >
> > On Monday 06 August 2007, Paul Fitch wrote:
>
> > >  I'm sure that line editors were all the rage
> > in 1979, but we
> > >know better now.  Anyone?
> >
> > VED by Bob Van Der Pohl, and XED both come to mind as being
> > somewhat better,
> > Dynastar works well but handles large files at only 14k at a
> > time which is a
> > PITA.
> >
> > >Oh, and VCC NEEDS BRACKETS.  Can't even edit C source with
> > them.  They are
> > >not a choice allowed under VCC at this time.
> >
>TS-WORD was on Rogers DVD, but TS-EDIT wasn't, at least I haven't seen it in
>there. I've seen VED on Cloud9.  Never saw XED anywhere.
>
>I'm fine with buying VED, if it will do the job.  Anyone here use it?  I
>want to edit C source.  That means open a file, type some stuff, delete some
>other stuff, save the file.  I have no desire to learn 27 obscure CNTL codes
>to deal with god knows what.  I just want to type.
>
>If I get VED, it comes on a 5.25 disk, so I might want to mail the disk to
>someone here on the list to have it converted to a dsk image I can actually
>use, as there are no floppies on this or any computer in my house<g>.
>
>That's what the COCO needs.  A USB port for flash drives.  Then once you've
>got a USB port on it, you (meaning someone who is not me and actually knows
>how to write device descriptors and drivers) could write a Bluetooth driver
>for it. One Mbit/s max speed<g>.  Then you could put a usb bluetooth antenna
>in there and have a wireless connection.  Actually, that's TWO USB ports.
>Well, once you've got one working, a second should be no big deal.
>
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