-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 28 May 2002 4:10 pm, Nicolas ROBAUX wrote:
> Le Mardi 28 Mai 2002 16:45, vous avez �crit : > > I was wondering the proper way to change a file name in linux on > > the command line. > > Hell... > > Even on a newbie mailing-list, there aren't such questions... > Have you ever read a introduction to Linux doc ? The first sentence is just not so in my experience :) As for the second, you have to know it exists: it's remarkable _how different_ the approach to learning how to use Linux is to someone who has come from a Windows variant. With Windows, for home use, the command line is deemphasised (almost to the point of invisibility in Win2K and WinXP) and, in my experience, people eventually learn to do things through trial and error with the GUI. With a Linux command line, you'll become frustrated very quickly if you use trial and error. Thus doing things by looking up manual pages, HOWTOs, FAQs and so on may well be a big leap. (As someone who's used Unix/Linux for about 13 years I'm probably about the worst to say whether that thought is correct or not :) There are also big conceptual differences; last night I was 'evangelising at dinner' and it was extraordinarily hard to get across the concept of 'no drive letters' and the fact that applications and data are separate in Linux. (Eventually it did get across and I was handing out Mandrake CDs :) Perhaps there should be an 'Conceptual Differences between Windows and Linux HOWTO' ... ? (If anyone else thinks it should exist I might have a shot at writing it; there's nothing like a difficult challenge ... !) Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE888qjCv59vFiSU4YRAqfOAKCbQ0mtAL1rrgiKYDr1bhH41lFYEACgr/5q A+QqVX8PJ5UNKL48EE6194I= =jwpo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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