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- From: paulr@fulcrum.oz.au (Paul Rosham)
- Subject: Re: Dumping OW and running X11R5(Was: Speed of Openwin 3)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.030322.28313@fulcrum.oz.au>
- Organization: The Fulcrum Consulting Group
- References: <4f9_8ce00VR_E7PiQz@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Dec8.162033.19938@ncsu.edu> <1992Dec8.163629.20626@ncsu.edu> <1992Dec12.034820.14970@wam.umd.edu> <FAN.92Dec13201652@tammy.cath.puh.upmc.edu> <1992Dec14.122047.9812@dragon.acadiau.ca>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 03:03:22 GMT
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- peter@dragon.acadiau.ca (Peter Steele) writes:
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- >>One of problem to use X11R5 to replace OW2/3 is some of the useful
- >>applications in OW2/3 do not work, such as mailtool (a extreamly useful one),
- >>dbxtool. Could you tell me how to make them work? I am fully agree with
- >>you that PD softwares do not work well in OW2 except better in OW3.
- >>Other very improtant applications are edittool and save environment.
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- >While I use OW, I don't consider mailtool or edittool particularly
- >good. Mailtool in particular is far from competing with an editor
- >like elm. I *might* consider using mailtool if it had a better editor
- >for composing mail. Is there a way to make mailtool use vi instead
- >of edittool?
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- Check out the keyboard accellerators for textedit(1), now found in the
- OpenWindows 3.0 Users Guide.
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- -PaulR.
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