#1973

harryhaller@pod.geraspora.de

Linux like original Unix

This is far more interesting than I thought.

It is 50 years ago that Unix as we know it came out (i.e. not the very first one).
So the Freedos channel tried to work as one would have worked 50 years ago.
After showing the man pages and commands from the various versions of unix, the vid get interesting.

Using a vt100 or 200 emulator, he uses the ed line editor to write a fortran60 program and documentation in nroff, a mark up language.

I like using ed because it keeps you quite focussed - as you'll see you're usually only working within the scope of a paragraph, but you can still make global changes - it is really as easy as he shows.

Ed is the predecessor of vi, vim etc.

On my system I have only the problem of using the left arrow key and rolling back and forwards with the up and down arrow keys. This is fixed by calling ed with rlwrap thus:

rlwrap ed filename

What interested me was nroff - it's the markup with which man pages are written, and as you can see in the video, is used for any documentation/publishing.

This old paper is easy to read, it explains nroff (also vi etc.):
Word Processing Made Easy Using UNIX [PDF}(https://archive.org/download/395768306-word-processing-using-unix/395768306-Word-Processing-Using-UNIX.pdf)

A reference book:
Unix Text Processing PDF

#unix #gnu #linux #ntroff #ed #vi #wordprocessing #1973

psych@diasp.org

It's very rare I see something pop up on Twitter (to which I'm not often glued) from the realm of golden oldie music.
This caught my eye, and even rarer, I replied. Tweet tweet!_ I'm ba-a-ad!_

Where have I heard that before? Sam the Sham, MJ, Billie Eilish...) I have not heard his name nor music in a long time. Wow.
He was... 'bad to the bone', this...

Bad Boy Leroy Brown

Well, here's one movie, with his song. The one about him, point taken, is largely unsung. Ripe for a #movie / #biography

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LYRICS:

Well the south side of chicago
Is the baddest part of town
And if you go down there
You better just beware
Of a man named leroy brown

Now leroy more than trouble
You see he stand 'bout six foot four
All the downtown ladies call him "treetop lover"
All the mens just call him "sir"

And it's bad, bad leroy brown
The baddest man in the whole damn town
Badder than old king kong
And meaner than a junkyard dog

Now leroy he a gambler
And he like his fancy clothes
And he like to wave his diamond rings
In front of everybody's nose
He got a custom continental
He got an eldorado too
He got a 32 gun in his pocket for fun
He got a razor in his shoe

And it's bad, bad leroy brown
The baddest man in the whole damn town
Badder than old king kong
And meaner than a junkyard dog

Well friday bout a week ago
Leroy shootin' dice
And at the edge of the bar
Sat a girl named doris
And ooh that girl looked nice
Well he cast his eyes upon her
And the trouble soon began
And leroy brown learned a lesson
'bout messin' with the wife of a jealous man

And it's bad, bad leroy brown
The baddest man in the whole damned town
Badder than old king kong
And meaner than a junkyard dog,

Well the two men took to fightin'
And when they pulled them from the floor
Leroy looked like a jigsaw puzzle
With a couple of pieces gone

And it's bad, bad leroy brown
The baddest man in the whole damn town
Badder than old king kong
And meaner than a junkyard dog

#film #music #JimCroce #LeroyBrown #musica #musique #1973 #ClassicRock

psych@diasp.org

Ah, Stevie Nicks! 🎶

I'd seen her name several times in the past few weeks, & wondered why? A birthday or event? Yes, that was it, Born 26 May 1948.
I even saw a quote from her in the local newspaper (May 2022):

"I hear all these older songwriters go, like, 'I can't write love songs anymore.'
And I'm, like, 'Well, that's just stupid.' Go open your memory library and check in there."

Indeed. Checking in. Wayback machine: Stevie Nicks! Unpacking... A long-time favorite, from Buckingham Nicks.
Unpack carefully. Headphones/big speakers recommended. Happy travels through the memory library.

Frozen Love

#music #StevieNicks #quotes #BuckinghamNicks #musica #musique #1973 #frozenlove [Stevie Nicks Bio] [Song Note]

FROZEN LOVE:

You may not be as strong as me
And I may not care to teach you
It may be hard to keep up with me
But I'll always be able to reach you

And if you go forward (You go forward), I'll meet you there
And if you climb up through the cold freezing air
Look down below you, search out above
And cry out to life for a frozen love (Cry out, love)

Life gave me you; the change was made
And there's no beginning over
You are not happy, but what is love?
Hate gave you me for a lover...

And if you go forward, I'll meet you there
And if you climb up through the cold freezing air
Look down below you; search out above
And cry out to life for a frozen love

  - Lindsey Buckingham / Stevie Knicks