Hallo Kees!

 MK>> Hopefully the above makes sense.  ;-)

 KvE> If your remark is about Vi, then it does.

Yes it was but after thinking about it I realized it could also apply to life.

 KvE> But even in these 20 years I have mastered less then 10 commands.

That sounds about right.  I've been using it off and on for about 30 years now
and started using it on Solaris.  I used it to write manpages for in house
programs.  There wasn't much documentation for much of anything back then.  Two
 books I had were for C and Fortran for scientists and engineers.  Nothing for
vi that I ever saw until later on Linux for vim.

 KvE> As far as documentation goes, donot you have access to the man
 KvE> pages.

Now I do but not back when I was teaching myself C and Unix.  Before that it
was VAX/VMS which I had a 10-20 page typed document for.  I had to learn that
the hard way as well but had a bit of advantage as I had a book for Fortran
which helped quite a bit.  I wrote many utilities for retrieving and formatting
 data to and from nine track tape drives and then later on for external scsi
exabyte drives for Sparc stations.

 KvE> I usually search for examples on the web.

There was no web back then.  In fact I recall when the www first started.  The
first web interface I encountered was lynx on a dumb terminal and the html
output on it was all screwed up due to the default 80 character width of lynx
on a terminal that couldn't display it properly.  I never understood the
attraction of html until seeing the gui version on xwindows.  I think it was
mozilla but maybe an earlier form of it.  It might come to me later.

I don't miss those days at all.

 KvE> I suppose that is age as well, short term memory goes first.

Yes.  I can relate to that as well as some long term memory such as what
mozilla may or may not have been called before mozilla.  

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

... Huil niet om mij, ik heb vi.
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