James LaRue - myliblog

As noted in my last blog, I've been mucking about with classic DOS outliners, booted up through dosbox-x on Ubuntu. The experience made me dig up some older blogs that have oft been cited on the web, but because I've shifted around the hosting of my website, the links went bad. I still find outliners utterly absorbing. If you do, too, you will find your people at outlinersoftware.com . Outliners Redux February 18, 2002 by James LaRue Copyright, 2002 All Rights Reserved   Introduction As I wrote in " A Blastfrom the Past: Classic Outliners ," outliners (also called outline processors) are a powerful tool for the manipulation both of text, and of its underlying structure. I also recommended two "classic" outliners (where "classic" means "created in the early 1990's"): KAMAS for DOS, and MORE 3.1 for the OSX Macintosh. I used KAMAS (an acronym for "Knowledge And Mind Amplification System") for years, from ...

Lately, I've been playing with classic DOS outliners on my Linux system, mostly using dosbox-x , KAMAS , PC-Outline , and Grandview . Those are live links for downloads, so they are still to be found, and could still be used. Shockingly, they are still far ahead of anything readily available in today's graphic interfaces. I'm still thinking about what I've learned from this stroll down memory lane. But in the process, I dug up some old posts that might be worth preserving. (They disappeared off the internet when I changed web hosting providers, and trimmed my content.) This is the first of two . A Blast from the Past: Classic Outliners by James LaRue September 2001 The "classic" period of outlining preceded Windows. Outliners thrived in DOS and on the Mac. While most of those programs are orphaned now, abandoned by their developers, they can still be found on various shareware sites. There is much to be said for these p...