According to Raider: While burning my CPU.
>
> 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.
Its just which way a person looks for help, altho' i must admit the help
command is not of much help as compared to dos, but the princple i was
trying to explane is some commands are the same but lets dont get of the
beaten track.
Now if you want a dos command to work in linux, say "dir" then that is very
simple to do, make an alias for the 'ls -al' command for "dir".
(( BTW: i thoght slackware did simaler things anyway a few years ago. ))
edit your profie, normaly called .bash_profile or .profile and enter;
alias dir='ls -al'
and make the system reread the file with '. .bash_profile' or its equilant
(system dependant.)
Now 'dir' works in linux, of course a newbie would not know that, but with
a little thought and help from this mailing group a lot can be acchived.
>
> > 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.
Whatever the answer is it still means the "user" will have to RTFM, which is
realy what a person must do to get to know what he or she is doing.
Afterall, if you have never used DOS then you wont have the slightest clue
HOWTO operate the system would you.
>
> Raider
> --
> ``Liberate tu-temet ex inferis''
>
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Regards Richard.
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