Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (158 mails)

[Patrick Shanahan <paka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [02-07-12 23:48]:
> The problem is some old software simply does not have a suitable
> replacement. What ain't broke don't need fixin, which is the DOS software I
> use constantly, and certainly more than any other software. It works
> wonderfully in eCS (Warp 4 progeny), poorly elsewhere, and is here the #1
> criteria for choice of primary DTE. The OS/DTE installation I'm using here
> to write this (as well as run DOS software) is about 10 years old, living
> through about 4 generations of motherboard/system upgrades - without
> breaking. Whatever the charset availability was that decade ago was what it
> was, and couldn't and can't be helped short of a new installation of a newer
> version (which is now about 9 months old), a sleeping dog I'm not about to
> kick.

BUT, it *was* that "sleeping dog" that raised the point (would better have
been a pint) about the 
  <quote>
  I still have to figure out what you wrote, since here are displayed
  non-US-ASCII characters amongst relevant parts of what you wrote.
  </quote>

and now complains that his dos/os/2 software WILL NOT be changed as it was
good enough then and is good enough now.

If you are not interested in correcting *your* software to properly
display properly formatted text, why did you raise the point, for the sake
of argument?

  
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