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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