[Haifux] RFC: Summary of the Basic Use Lecture

[Shlomi Fish]

I prepared a summary of what I think the basic use lecture should look
like. I'm not sure about some parts, so your comments are welcome.

BTW, should we discuss it in the projects' mailing-list?

Regards,

        Shlomi Fish


X and KDE
    - Similarities to Windows:
        - The K Menu
        - Windows        
        - The Help System
        - The File Manager
        - Konqueror
    - Virtual Desktops
        - The Window List
    - Cut & Paste
        - Klipper    
Console
    - Opening a Terminal
    - Exiting from a terminal
    - Shell Goodies:
        - Recalling Previous commands with up/down arrow
        - Command Line Editting (left/right, Alt+F/B, Ctrl+E, Ctrl+A)
        - Tab filename completion.
    - Case Studies:
        - Displaying the files in a given directory
        - Recalling Previous Commands with up and down.
        - Creating an archive. (tar -czvf hello.tar.gz mydir)
            - Never (!) create an archive of files in the same directory.
            (else "tar -czvf *" may erase one of the files.)
        - Extracting an archive. (tar -xzvf)
        - Displaying the contents of an archive without opening it. 
            (tar -tzvf)

            NOTE:

            Should we use zip instead of tar.gz ?
            Should we cover archives at all in this lecture?
            
        - Making backups of all the files:
            for I in *.c ; do cp $I $I.bak ; done
            (this diverts into shell scripting, but we should do it to
            demonstrate the power of the UNIX shell)
        - 




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