Subj : Bluetooth Keyboard To : Ed Vance From : Barry Martin Date : Sun Sep 08 2024 07:47:00 Hi Ed! > Ctrl_Z might be useful: in LibreOffice it will clear the last 'section' > entered, though sometmes I'm not sure what it considers a section so may > have to Ctrl_Z more than once. EV> CTRL-Z is called Undo. That'll work! Nano, a terminal editor in Linux, uses ^K to Kill a line and ^U to paste it back in, or Undo. ...With the BBS stuff on Virtual Windows I use SEdit for the word processor and ^Y is the line killer and ^U is Undo. -- Have to be careful to remember where one is!! EV> I 'think' whatever was undone would still be in the Clipboard. Probably: I know I can Undo several times in the various word processors. EV> There may be a similar utility in Linux like the Clipboard EV> Viewer at c:\Windows\system32\ clipbrd.exe on the XP box here. Possibly. I usually just plop it in as can always undo it if wrong. EV> I have used a Ubuntu CD several times to take a look see at how EV> U'u works. U'u is an abbreviation that Jean Parrot used in the EV> FIDO Windows echo many years ago used when talking about Ubuntu EV> there. I've not seen it as "U'u" but makes sense. EV> I never installed U'u, only ran it off the CD. Here it took 'forever' to load from CD (or later DVD). Now use a thumbdrive -- a heck of a lot faster compared to the mechanical installs. EV> Also tried looking at MINT the same way. I'll admit to never really trying the other options: got started with Ubuntu semi-backwards: started recording TV shows with MythDora, a stand-alone utilty and stripped-down operating system in one. Several years later MythDora was discontinued and I moved to MythBuntu, also an all-in-one TV recording utility built on the stripped-down Ubuntu. (The 'Myth' part is from MythTV.) Eventually the MythBuntu folks determined supporting their own OS based on an established OS was too much work (I'm think like re-inventing the wheel) so they discontinued MythBuntu and said intall the Ubuntu OS on your own and then add MythTV to it. (...Inaccuracies in the history more than likely!) So back to my starting Ubuntu, was "I should get an idea of how this thing work to better understand what's going on and to troubleshoot". I'll agree with Ky there are probably better options than Ubuntu but for me makes more sense to use and be somewhat familiar with the one Operating System. EV> I like Linux a bit but never got to wanting to Dual Boot it. I would not dual boot it (with Windows). Over the years I have: if a system came with Windows I tried to preserve it just because Windows was handy for some functions. I had about a 50-50 chance of the dual boot installation working correctly. Admittedly a small sampling -- maybe a half-dozen -- but others reporting similar issues. I would use a dedicated machine for whichever option of Linux you like, that way no fighting with the Boot Loader, (And it seems Windows/Micro- soft or maybe the computer motherboard/BIOS manufacturers are making it more and more difficult to dual boot.) Use a slightly older machine -- I have some almost 'antique' computers around here with BIOS dates in the 2000's and early 2010's and they work. Slow, but work. Machines from this decade zip right along. Could also spend around $100-150 and get a Raspberry Pi. Uses a micro-SD card (get two or three for your backups). IIRC there is an option to use (a form of?) Windows on it should you not like the Linux OS. At least if you decide you don't like the Linux OS you can re-burn the SD card and use the Pi with Windows! (LIS double-check -- I sort of ignore Windows stuff.) If you do decide to go with a RPi check with us first: there are numerous options. Pico is way too underpowered for a Windows- replacement computer. You're probably looking at a (version) 4 or 5. The 400 is a slightly modified version 4 built into a keyboard. Buy the Raspberry Pi wall wart. Do not skimp here!! I have not had good results with off-the shelf wall wart power supplies here. EV> I started using C=64 BASIC, then played with MS-DOS 2.11 on a XT EV> at work. XT BASIC looked fairly similar to what I did on the EV> Commodore 64 so I played a bit with it on that XT machine since EV> several Books that came with it helped me to learn about it. EV> I never learned much about Assembly Language or Machine Code. EV> I read a lot but it wasn't as easy to learn as BASIC, DOS & Bat EV> Files were. And what I know is just the basic things. I had a boox called "The MS-DOS Bible" which I loved: it was written so could start at page 1 and continue to the end ("traditional") or for people like me who are -- umm - impatient or want to jump in and have a project they want to get into now. (The instructor from University of Iowa who taught the staff at my college where I was working did say there are two main types like I just typed.) EV> About the most complicated BASIC code that I have written was for EV> a program that printed Labels on the computer at Church. EV> The older program was used with a Tractor Feed Dot Matrix EV> printer. EV> It printed one label at a time. EV> When a Ink Jet printer replaced the older printer, labels could EV> be printed on Letter Size paper sheets (can't recall if that EV> paper has 3 labels across the sheet or 5 of them). EV> Anyway, the new program on the Church computer had output meant EV> for the old printer that wasn't used anymore, so I wrote a BASIC EV> program to print the firstline to each of three labels, the EV> second line and so on . I haven't done anything that complicated but I might be able to figure out how to modify the original code. Anyway, good job! :) EV> I was proud to make that computer go loop-a - dee - loop to print EV> whole sheets of labels back then EV> My little program was used one time a year, for a couple of EV> years.Afterwards the Church got a newer PC system with another EV> program that did more than the little routine I wrote. But was good you were able to save the Church either from needing to buy new software to match the printer or hire someone to do what you did. ¯ ® ¯ BarryMartin3@MyMetronet.NET ® ¯ ® .... If your dog has a fever give mustard. Mustard is great for hot dogs. --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .