Re: [Haifux] RFC: Summary of the Basic Use Lecture

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Shlomi Fish wrote:

>
> 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

   - X in a networked environment ?
       (ssh shlomif@t2 and issue some commands)
     pros: this is something they really don't have
     cons: this may open a can of worms in terms of possible points of
           failure (in case ssh X forwarding doesn't work as planned for
           the user)

> 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)

          Do you want to explain the basics of globing here?
          (e.g: 'echo *', or using zsh's inline expantion of globs with
          tab)

>       - Displaying the contents of an archive without opening it.
>           (tar -tzvf)

Maybe the example tar to be used will be the same one thaty will be used
in the "basic admin" 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)

        - piping. No introduction of the unix shell is complete without
          giving a taste of pipes. I figure that we don't have time for
          more than one or two illustrated examples.

-- 
Tzafrir Cohen
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