On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Richard Adams wrote:
> If i may say so, the average user of Win9x does not even know how that
> system works, all they are told is that, all they need to do is "click"
> upon an icon and Bill Gates does the rest, of course that is sales talk.
Well... I guess it's very hard to understand Linux if all your
experience is based on Mac or Win. Some prompt experience helps a lot.
> There is of course commands like 'find' 'help' on DOS systems, so with a
> little thought a necommer to *NIX has a flying start, its just that he
> does not know that fact.
But they don't help. find is actually an extension of dir and
help is puzzeling because help in *nix world gives help on the shell's
internal commands, while the man and info is what they are looking for.
> Anyway, i must agree with your comments, however if one reads the
> INSTALL.TXT file (or its equalent) which comes with every distribution
> then they would know where to look for information, i must admit even that
> file does not tell folks to look into /usr/doc but "always" has a referance
> to 'sunsite' which is now of course metalab.
> I suppose thats because installing the documentation is up to the user,
> who possably would not install that package because of disk-space etc.
I'd say Installation HOWTO and DOS-To-Linux HOWTO are vitalfor the
first steps. Maybe Tips HOWTO will also help in understanding how to use
the prompt and the shell features.
Raider
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