On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Barry Selk wrote:
> :One of my first questions was "What are the equivilants of dir, move,
> :copy, etc.?", and soon after that, "Is there any documentation for this
> :thing?" I was getting pretty frustrated with Linux at that point, only
> :because I couldn't figure it out.
Right...my point is that, being a Mac user, I had *no* command line
equivalents for these at first. I couldn't think with the concepts (way
back in the dark ages, I had been a command-line user, however it had so
completely left my thought paradigms as to be a non-useful experience.
> Yes, I found myself asking 'equivelance' questions at first. Then
> started looking at questions as functions instead and the pieces started
> to fall together. A whole new way of looking at things happened to me. I
> read man pages, HOWTO's, found out what grep and gawk could do and
> played with them. "Wow, this is amazing", I thought.
For me, it was realizing I could publish stuff from my desk directly to a
web site. Boom! No ftp, it was just *there.*
_Deirdre * http://disclaimer.deirdre.org * http://www.deirdre.net
"I would rather choose to have my leg bitten off than to buy NT"
Rob Narberes, Information Systems Manager, DNA Plant Technologies Corp
as quoted in (!) Computerworld
