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This may sound stupid?

Post #1by bonehead » 05.09.2002, 22:35

This May sound stupid, but what program do you use to open data file such as solarsys.ssc? I have opened it with wordpad but all I get for font, is squares with a little english here and there.
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Post #2by Rassilon » 05.09.2002, 22:43

Notepad works best...
I'm trying to teach the cavemen how to play scrabble, its uphill work. The only word they know is Uhh and they dont know how to spell it!
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Post #3by Guest » 06.09.2002, 05:35

vi works quite well for me ;-)
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Post #4by Guest » 06.09.2002, 22:26

pico! pico! PICO! PICO, DAMNIT! :twisted:
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Post #5by Rassilon » 07.09.2002, 03:08

link me and ill try it out :mrgreen:
I'm trying to teach the cavemen how to play scrabble, its uphill work. The only word they know is Uhh and they dont know how to spell it!
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Post #6by Sum0 » 07.09.2002, 06:13

Notepad rocks, man. It's the best Microsoft program ever. Notepad has never crashed. It does what it says. I've never had to look in help. There are no stupid functions that a) don't work and b) you'll never use. There are no paperclips at all. Just compare it to Word...
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Post #7by bonehead » 07.09.2002, 19:53

Thank you note pad works perfect. Now if I just figure out how to get celestia to let me view the earth I will be a happy camper. :D

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pico

Post #8by dab » 08.09.2002, 08:53

this is totally offtopic, but since pico was mentioned --
I love the program, I use it every day, I can undo the stupid
linewraps in my sleep (and vi is just for die hard Real Programmers)
but: why does it freeze when I press ctrl-s ?? I mean, this behaviour
has not gone away over several versions. Is that a feature or
something? (it's hard to remember not to press ctrl-s when you
have just been using emacs :)

cheers,
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pico

Post #9by Christophe » 08.09.2002, 09:35

dab wrote:but: why does it freeze when I press ctrl-s ?? I mean, this behaviour
has not gone away over several versions. Is that a feature or
something? (it's hard to remember not to press ctrl-s when you
have just been using emacs :)


It's not a bug it's a feature of the console! So it won't go away. Ctrl+S is a shortcut for Scroll Lock. To unlock press Ctrl+Q or the Scroll Lock key.

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Re: pico

Post #10by dab » 08.09.2002, 23:23

I say! and I always went

ps aux | grep pico | grep -v grep | tr -cs "[:digit:]" "\n" | head -2 | xargs kill

:roll: :D
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Post #11by Thilo » 10.09.2002, 21:57

notepad: sucks ... couldn't open big files for me.
wordpad: if it has to be mickeysoft use this one.

pico: blerrr. *yuck*
use joe. ;)
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Re: pico

Post #12by Christophe » 11.09.2002, 08:34

dab wrote: ps aux | grep pico | grep -v grep | tr -cs "[:digit:]" "\n" | head -2 | xargs kill


I can't believe I've been using killall all those years...
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