Agreed, and amen! It's tough enough to learn how to fly. To do it while wearing a snowsuit is not very bright and not very fair. On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Janina Sajka wrote: > Dump that Windows box and install Linux. > > I am dumbfounded that your professor wouldn't insist on it, as a matter > of fact. > > Ned writes: >> HI all, >> I just came back from my Unix class and my teacher is getting desparate >> with me. I used pico to write a little paragraph -- which went ok until I >> tried to go back to some words to correct them. Because we use putty, I >> can't focus the cursor on a particular letter to -- say -- delete it, and >> everything got mmessed up. Then using VI, Iwas supposed to edit a paragraph >> of text. After he saw what I did, he went speachless. SO tell me, is there >> any other more friendly remote client like telnet or something. >> Plese people, encourage me in these tough times and tell me what to do? I >> appologize for posting a question little off the topic, but putty is >> actually using Unix commands sent to it from the machine running it. >> >> Many thanks in advance good people. >> Ned >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > > Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 > Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com > > Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) > janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org > > If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- The Moon is Waxing Crescent (46% of Full) "Things are in the saddle, and they ride mankind." Ralph Waldo Emerson Personal site www.hhs48.com, Software site www.mhcable.com/~chuckh
