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Github explaining how to run an old version of Word Perfect on Linux.
The Github and other articles I've found pointing to adding this version of word perfect onto a modern linux paints it as most similar to DOS's 5.1 with unix long name support. Maybe my memories have bit-rotted and confused word perfect with microsoft word because my school used both at differing points to the point I remember Word Perfect using Microsoft shortcuts. At any rate what I had thought would be a fun more full featured document editor in command line is more difficult than I anticipate both because I don't actually know the shortcut/commands, but also the incompatibilities in how it saves things.
Then there is the final insult of having to specify file paths by hand, when I have distinct memories of even the text version of word perfect having a browsable directory system. That was the final straw for me. If I'm going to have to go to that trouble, I'm just gonna stick with Micro.
Midnight Command remains awesome. I still need to do a few things because 'surely I can make this run micro' and other general nicities. However even with me still just blanking on basic commands now and again? There is enough that I do know trhat I can muddle through. Plus it's one of the few command line programs i've seen where there is mouse support. I just don't want to use a mouse, because if I'm in a terminal window and I have to use a mouse? There's something wrong.
Plus it has an internal FTP client, which is useful for accessing the tilde server I've got an account on. Normally I use filezilla, but having a command line option where i can see local folder and destination folder helps me visualize everything.
Also, and I find it interesting, there's an unofficial build for Windows.
Offpunk, the Offline Gemini Browser.
Purely command line tool that, at a determined intervul (one day/week, every other day, whatever) will grab a list of marked pages, and that's the only times it's online. you can force it t ograb/update, but it is largely aimed at 'being online for a short amount of time and then you arne't tying up a connection.' Not as useful as it may have once been in the era of dialup, but in a time of mobile data caps? Gemini itself uses what are effectivly rounding errors when it comes to modern data useage, but what about all the other things that are Doing when one's phone is on? IE automatic updates, apps trying to phone home, and whatnot. Having something like this that will grab while your email is also grabbing, and then you can kill the connection is useful in my opinion. If nothing else I'm glad it exists and there are people that have this mindset instead of behaving as if the internet is always on and always avalible.
I am by no means comfortable being 'full time' in the command line. I still want to try learning more for no reason other than 'this is something I consider neat.' I'm sure people who do these things full time as part of their job consider me to be at best a tourist even if I learned the things i 'wanted' to learn because those waters are deep and vast.
Still. it's something that does have real actual valid use in professional settings. I'm not doing it for that reason. I'm just goofing off. S'all I'll ever end up doing.
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