Andreas K. Foerster wrote:
db>I never ran BSD; Installed it once, but since it didnt have the scsi driver I needed, I went on to other distros.I dont hava dog in that fight Andreas. Us dos lovers dont particularly care whether BSD is called a
Huh? BSD is not a linux distribution! They are separate operating systems.
Even the different styles of BSD (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, iBSD) are not just different distributions as it is with Linux, but they even
have different kernels, which just all go back to the original BSD Unix. Most of the Unix systems today have their roots in the original BSD
'distro' or not.
'scrollock-uparrow' invokes WAITASEC.COM;The nice thing about WAITASEC, is that it is invoked with scroll-lock/up-arrow, a completely novel, yet intuitive key combination. I have seen dos apps that use the ctrl-pg-up/dn for another purpose, which would be a little confusing.
Ah, now I see, that we're talking about a Dos program.
I first thought, it's a linux prog.
The 80x50 text mode screen is 4k; One meg is 250 pages. A CD could easily hold 150,000 pages of info. I dont want it online, I want it on my hard drive like it is for dos, and I want the drive to be able to find it for me in a few seconds like it can in dos. But there is so much of it in Linux that that is impossible. What is needed is the experience of single users at their own *personal* PC that has been organized for their benefit rather than, as I see with Linux, organized for the benefit of system administrators and programmers.
DB>Unlike dos, the distros have not sorted out what the single user needs to know from the vast library which is supplied for programmers and sysads. I either see nothing, or I get swamped with minutiae.
As I said, have a look at the Dos-to-Linux-HOWTO. It has all the basic information you need in a very compact way.
There is also a beginners tutorial at <http://www.linux.org>, but
that's really just for absolute beginners.
Also usefull: Matt Welsh, "Linux Installation and Getting Started". You might find it online, but I can't tell you where...
If you are a professional, then Linux or BSD is wonderful; but if you view the pc as just a tool you want to use for some other purpose, DOS can often supply that without supplying all the trivia.
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