this is sort of true, but then there are so many terminal programs as well - I tend to use default bash, and have access to it directly on linux, also thru cygwin, and use to apps on Android to get under the gui - and yes, . is a location as well as a wildcard sometimes!
On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, Pall Thayer wrote: > If you don't know your terminal, you don't know your computer. It knows you. > > Graphical user interfaces are not meant to ease your interaction with your > computer, they're intended to guide your use of your computer. > > The terminal is your friend. > > Using the terminal is like stroking the surface of an orange with your > finger. Using GUI software is like doing the same but with a 1 mm film of > plastic between your finger and the orange. > > Smoking a pipe should sound like an absurd concept. > > "." is a location. > > Where are you? (if you don't know... you don't know your computer, it knows > you. Open the terminal and type "pwd". It will tell you where you are. > Wouldn't it feel better if you knew before your computer?) > > -- > ***************************** > Pall Thayer > artist > http://pallthayer.dyndns.org > ***************************** > > == email archive http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ web http://www.alansondheim.org / cell 347-383-8552 music: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ current text http://www.alansondheim.org/se.txt == _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
