Subj : Compiling text files
To : MRO
From : Boondock
Date : Mon Jun 07 2021 07:50 pm
[1m[34mRe[0m[34m: [1m[36mCompiling text files
[34mBy[0m[34m: [1m[36mMRO [34mto [36mBoondock [34mon [36mMon Jun 07 2021 13:30:09[0m
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.
Got any useful suggestions?
JD
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