Subj : Compiling text files
To   : Boondock
From : MRO
Date : Mon Jun 07 2021 10:24 pm

  Re: Compiling text files
  By: Boondock to MRO on Mon Jun 07 2021 07:50 pm

 >   Re: Compiling text files
 >   By: MRO to Boondock on Mon Jun
 > 07 2021 13:30:09
 >
 >  MR> i wouldnt use a txt to exe program
 >
 > <shrug> You do you.
 >
 > Why this came up for me is that there was a pretty remote village in the DRC
 > where a collegue was working for an NGO/UN on De-mining and IDP issues.
 > The local chieftan has an old PC, a 286 actually, that is his pride and joy.
 > The issue was when he was provided with the various bits of documentation
 > and information he was supposed to use in support of the issues there, he
 > smugly insisted that *his* computer couldn't use any of this modern stuff.
 > He further insisted that it wasn't is computer at fault, but that of the
 > arrogant foreigners trying to tell him what to do. He insisted that if we
 > couldn't give him the information in a format that he could read on his
 > computer, in a friendly and easy way, then it was the foreigner's fault and
 > not his.
 > My mate sent me a frantic message asking for help. He sent me the info in
 > French, English and Swahili, and I worked on it for about six hours before
 > sending him back a single .EXE file which he could put onto a disk for the
 > chief, who was gobsmacked when he ran it and it displayed perfectly, in
 > colour, in a series of cascading windows. THAT'S what prompted my question;
 > a real-world situation that is not that unusual once you are a few meters
 > off the beaten path.
 > In subsequent discussions, we decided to look around to see if there was a
 > more modern equivelant that would hopefully work cross platform.
 > We're looking to see if we can find something, hopefully that will accept
 > something convertable by Pandoc, and preferably something that takes
 > MarkDown as input (even if it needs a few extensions.
 >

this shit reads like one of those nigerian prince emails.

 > Got any useful suggestions?

tell him to get his shit together.
this is stupid.
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