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I’m not a programmer or a developer. I used it daily for a specific job of maintaining a very large catalog image library for a wholesale distributor. Like you said, incredibly fast, smooth, efficient. If you give it a command, it is executed. Period. If you type wrong, hee hee hee

No, I had little problems with it. If I did it was my logic that was faulty. Learned never to operate with the master data, even with backup.

I also used GREP to extract page number, item number sequences and other data from final .pdf documents. Learned to open them up, remove the offending syntax for 2 numeral 1’s following each other so I could remove the page numbers for each item in the section. Used Pdftk to open it. Again very fast very efficient command line tool, but it simply worked if you wrote the right command.

Also found Gnumeric spreadsheet, the only one I know of that will allow RegX find/replace commands inside the spreadsheet. I loved using it for text editing. Documentation sucked.

The process of creating the catalog was a total dirty hack, but I was very good at making all the moves to get it done.

Did that for 5 years, plugging it into Quark for print and same bullets and data for the web.

Every day I was moving flat files from the AS400 to a Windows PC and often to the Redhat Linux box on the other side of my desk. Eventually I found ports of the necessary software that ran on Windows and used the Linux box less often.

It was a monster.