Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Bill wrote:
I use both, and DOS even, so I don't have the attitude, but I do get
**** for posting from XP if that's what I'm doing for the day. Some of
them actually check the header to see what system I'm using and call me
a Win-tard or some other junk from some teenager. They think the Linux
command line is the only one and are too young to realize that some of
us have actually used 'scripts', originating from the DOS batch file
ability.


Or that some of us used computers before they were even born. Too bad
I lost that copy of Windows 1.0, they would really freak. ;-)

I started with 3.1 since I loved the command line and did not actually
ever want to use Windows, but it was forced upon me for work. That
windows you could crash and still be able to re-boot to DOS and fix it.

I have a couple systems with Linux on them, but I can't do a lot of
the work I need on them, so they are rarely used. In fact, I keep a Win
ME computer around for some OCR and scanning software. It does things
software for newer OS don't, and I have multiple scanners and spare
hardware to keep it on my network, for years. I can scan a wrinkled,
stained old schematic or data sheet and clean it up in a few minutes,
where the newer software has large blocks blacked out. The HP XP
compatible scanners and software I have aren't TWAIN compliant, or work
with Paperport without a lot of file conversions.


Same here, all 3 of my scanners will only work with windows and don't
have any UNIX/Linux type drivers. 1995 HP SCSI, 2000 Visioneer on LPT1,
and a 2 year old HP negative and paper scanner on USB.
Only my HP printer can be used in Linux, and yes the windows software is
still better for touching things up, and OCR.
And, as you said, Paperport is much better than even the HP software.
Cheers,
Bill Baka