[Elecraft] Ham Radio SW for the Mac Qs

[Rod N0RC]

Folks,

As a result of these statements I'm getting recommendations for text
editor, and other software. Let me clarify a point or two:

1. I'm no longer in the market for a Mac

2. I'm not in the market for software of any kind, for any platform.

3. Seems that text editors are a religion, (or maybe a politic party,
I can never remember which ;-) I'm guilty of it too.  Every time I
mention text editors, MS Notepad comes up as an alternative because it
is free--recall what you Mom taught you: "...you get what you paid
for..." 'nuff said. Notepad is only one step above a manual type
writer. Try one of the two I mention and you'll see what I mean.  I
mentioned vi and Emacs only for historical context, so that you would
have a point of reference for my evaluation criteria.

4. I'm not in the market to switch to ANY new PC/OS combo. I'm
sticking with WinXP. That is not a religious/political statement about
the ultimate goodness/badness of any of them. It is a optimal
pragmatic solution for a long list of criteria that has absolutely no
reason to be discussed on QRP-L or the Elecraft list. ;-)

Time to close this thread down, it is straying out of the bounds QRP
Radio Land.


73, Rod N0RC


----- Original Message -----
From: "Rod N0RC" <rod@n0rc.us>
To: "qrp-l" <qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU>; <elecraft@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 2:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Ham Radio SW for the Mac Qs


>
> Finally, by the time I got Mac versions of all the other software I
> now use on the PC; (Firewall, Antivirus, text editor(2),
> quicken...etc) I'd be out another $500 or more.
>
..,
>
> (2) MS Notepad is not an editor, it is a TOY! TextPad
www.textpad.com
> and NoteTab www.notetab.com/ are products worthy of the "text
editor"
> label. (I'm an ex vi and Emacs "power user" ;-)