Eric Auer wrote:
Well, consider the evolution of archivers for dos from .arc, .pak, .zip, and now, .rar ... AFAIK, if you have any of the later tools, you can work with any of the earlier ones. You only need one archive tool in dos, and right now, that tool is RAR.EXEHi, well, you really ARE a pessimist.
But in Linux, not only do we have different extensions, but different tools and different distros with different ideas of how those tools should work.
As for going over to a dos user's site. When I first tried to get online with the 2400 baud modem, I found the documentation inadequate, which I still see is problem, moreso with Linux than dos. I went to a hackers office down town, and came home with a 360 floppy that solved my problem. I likewise learned to hand out floppies, for if you recall, dos would easily boot from a floppy, and a batch program could be easily crafted to do anything the system was capable of. But Linux has so much capability, you have the needle in the haystack problem.I cant give the guy the haystack, and when I go on the net, what I see are lots of Linux haystacks.
But, au contraire, I am an optimist, and think someone will see the problem single users face and deal with it appropriately. Dos, after all, has had over 20 years experience figuring out what the single user needed to know, and someone will come out with a Linux distro tailored for him. But simply denying the problem exists dont help.
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