Hi Shaun, This is sort of getting off track, but I'd like to say that's actually one of the reasons I became a fan of Linux. Although, the desktop editions have a full graphical desktop environment similar to Windows it also has a large number of people out there who actively use Linux in the console/shell environment as well. Especially, for webservers etc that don't need a graphical user interface. As a result text-based console apps like the Nano text editor, the Links web browser, Ncftp ftp client, and various other console apps are still being updated and developed along side their graphical counterparts. So anyone like you and I who come from an MS Dos past you get the bestof both worlds. You can choose to go all graphical, go full console, or use both. Plus the facth that the Linux shell,Bash, has autocomplete and things like that its much better than Dos in a lot of ways. Plus Bash is fully customizable, and you can create your own commands etc just by editing your local .bashrc file. If you use Bash along side a program like Screen you can give yourself an additional 10 virtual consoles to work in making it easy to be browsing the web in links on virtual console 1, and taking notes in Nano in virtual console 2. Its great. As someone who use to love Dos I took to the Linux console like a duck to water, and use it side by side with the Linux graphical user environment.
On 4/14/11, shaun everiss <sm.ever...@gmail.com> wrote: > well I used type to read files but also a program called list that > did the same thing. > interestingly this reminds me about a command I used to do in the past. > Print con was one > the other thing I could was put copy con filename.ext and type whatever. > I couldn't review it but if I was doing something with batch files a > thing I was continously hacking for various reasons system > configurations mostly I used to do it all the time. > Though to sidetrack this a little Once I had to do something about a > laptop that was old with a broken \ key. > also the : and ; were broken. > I had to write a batch system so I could call a file for whatever I wanted. > it took ages but it worked for the time being. > as long as I remembered my list of files that was. > <sigh> > Those were fun days. > Now if something breaks well enough in windows you can't just ripp > out a module to make windows work. > If you do well you get up the creak. > I usually reformat when things get bad enough. > Its easier if possible to reload things instead of bothering with > registrys and such. > I also miss the fact i could restore a disk based system in 5 hours > less if I just wired it up to my win95 system with interlink and intersvr. > Those days are gone and some days I miss it and sometimes I don't. > I have just accepted that I will never get another dos system again. > But when dos was mentioned it brought back memmories of days where I > would run hints on windows and the games on dos I did that for 8 years. > Wouldn't have advanced foreward really if the system had not died. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
