[Elecraft] KX3 Utility Linux version

[rich hurd WC3T]

Brownie points if you know what SPOOL meant. Without resorting to
Google-fu.

I'm still a green-screen guy at heart.  Give me a raised floor and a bunch
of bus and tag pairs, and I'm in heaven.

On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 13:17 Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net> wrote:

> I've migrated through several OS worlds over the decades.  IBM's
> universe had a significant amount of acronyms that required careful
> tongue maneuvers to pronounce ... "DASD" was one of the easiest, as was
> "ISAM" ["Incredibly Slow Access Method"].  EB-se-dick, a little harder.
> Eventually, Unix became essential and I grep-ped and glob-bed, and
> struggled with regular expressions about as much as I had to with
> partial differential equations.  When I retired, I decided to learn how
> to read Russian with all the free time I was going to have.  Russian was
> much easier than Unix.  The free time never materialized.
>
> 73,
>
> Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
> Sparks NV DM09dn
> Washoe County
>
> On 6/11/2018 9:34 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
> > If you are not good at deciphering cryptic messages with geek words,
> > don't use Linux.
> > I do wish it were better, but Linux seems to be steeped in "geekdom
> > language" - if you are not educated in the language, you do not
> > deserve to be part of our culture.
> > Until Linux produces plain text language for errors and such messages,
> > it will not be a major player in the computer operating systems.
> > Windows has its share of cryptic messages, but at least it is in plain
> > text and does not often refer to "gobbledygook" that is only
> > understood by Windows geeks.
> > I have tried Linux and have been stiffed by questions to the forums
> > saying essentially "if you don't understand the language, go away".
> > I am not a computer dummy - I understand DOS, but the Linux language
> > is a thing unto itself.
> > Ubuntu and Linux Mint have reduced the Linux install process
> > difficulty, but have not tackled the cryptic messages that can result.
> > If you only want to do only email and web surfing, then Linux can work
> > well for you, but anything else can be daunting with cryptic requests
> > to enter a nonsensical string of commands for "who knows what results"
> > and be shamed by the forum geeks who blame you for not understanding
> > the language.
> >
> > 73,
> > Don W3FPR
>
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