In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 04/10/2006
at 12:00 AM, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>But, my point has been since I was first introduced to UNIX in 1976,
>that a lot of UNIX is not intuitive.
True, but it's not as cryptic as you make out.
>cat -- list
No. Cat is catenate. It's no more "print" than IEBGENER is.
>grep -- get regular expression and print
No more cryptic than DCB or DSN.
>vi -- edit
I pronounce it "vile". Some people swear by vi, others swear at it ;-)
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ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
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