At 5:36 PM -0700 11/28/05, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Nov 28, 2005, at 5:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Your suggestions on how to restore the old users makes sense to me; even with
my very limited knowledge of UNIX. Don't really know what chown stands for
but that is not necessary at this time. I will learn.
Not necessary, but it's a contraction of ch-ange own-ership; unix
has a long history of cryptic contractions like that. If a pun can
be worked into it as well, all the better.
Yeah, it seems like most Unix commands were coined after all the
"good" command names were selected, except they weren't. I think
it's just the typical Unix being designed for geeks so mere mortals
can't understand it. Unix documentation is all designed around the
idea that you already know everything there is to know about Unix.
It seems like every time I sit down to learn some Unix it ends up
being easier and less painful to bash (or is it csh) my head through
the wall. But slowly I'm learning.
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Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
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