At http://news.gnhlug.org/article.php?sid=375 is:
Try launching a cli email client when you don''t know one exists, try connecting to a POP3 server when you think POP is a drink, try printing email messages when the xserver is down and you never printed from a DOS prompt.... most M$ people I know can''t run a cli. A minimal system should still provide help for a newbie, IMHO, but diffing anf grepping are learned skills; the wet-behind-the-ears newbie shouldn''t need to already know that when he needs help for the first crash. Yes, you can expect them to remember a certain directory (ahem "Folder") and a certain command Helpcrashed. Something which tells them.... if you have crashed X, load this document (doc name here) and there you read: to reinstall X, you type: tar -xzvf X.3_22.tar Whatever - I''m a newbie...... Then the user drops to a cli or switches terminals and tar -xzvf X.3_22.tar and he watches the gears spin. Psst: (whisper) they just learned something and quietly gained confidence in the cli aspect of Linux sssshhhh. ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
