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> On  2 Feb 02 at 15:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> >> ... some command features left out in Busybox. For beginners it
> >> would be most important to avoid ambiguity.
> >
> >I think your choice to say "_most_ important" is an indication that
> >you are now a step or two up the learning curve.<g>
>
> Sorry, Clarence, for the impolite flaming word MOST. Everything is
> relative. But in the flavour of Linux we are diving in, you are from
> the very first moment busy investigating why something does NOT work.
> And some of us like   this, because this is the way they learn.

Quite true Christof. And I must be coming over too agressively again. 
I'll try to turn it down for a while. :(
 
> The only function of Busybox in my understanding is that it keeps
> the RD version of BasicLinux so small that it fits on a PC with only
> 8 MB. For those who want to climb the ladder (or at least keep the
> results of their experiments) Steven prepared the HD version. From
> that moment on it would be possible to replace some commands from
> Busybox with full featured binary versions.

> DOS-like commands are a completely different issue. Copy, dir, edit,
> del, ren,  cd.. and how many commands you ever want are not defined
> by Busybox, but by the file /root/.profile. And this actually was
> what me helped MOST (sorry!) when I dived into Linux.

I could see that MANY commands went to busybox, and I (probably mistakenly)
assumed it took care of some friendly aliasing also. 
You really are diving into Linux, Christof. I've just been dipping my toe
every once in a while. I have a few distros that I use a bit, but I'm not
even remotely thinking about switching yet.

Re: Baslinux. I have not been into root/profile.
Normally I WOULD have viewed all readable files by now, but my Baslinux
sessions have been short so far.
Thanks for the tip.

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