On Sun, 28 May 2000, Oliver L. Plaine Jr. wrote:
>Thanks Paul. I didn't know about the description there. that helps.
>
> I wholeheartedly agree with you on reading the manual...It is
>just a superlarge project for someone without the proper
>background...everything seems to be double coded 8-). unfamiliar
>terminology linked with unfamiliar code in a montage without any edges
>to grasp onto.
Hey Olli,
I know how you feel. First time I got confronted with Unix, it sort of hit
me over the head with a slashed club (instead of a backslashed one ;).
It takes a bit of time to get into it. Then it takes a LOT of time to get
into touch with the idea behind it.
Most people don't know that Unix originated FROM programmers FOR
programmers, who were fed up with nice, userfriendly systems on which it
took them an eternity and 24 minutes to get something done, just because
of all the protections. Unix can be very safe, but it will also let you
destroy your complete system through 1 command without argueing. Just a
matter of setting your aliasses right :)
The console commands are so fast compared to what you do in DOS.
cp - copy (saves half the keystrokes)
ls - dir /w
mv - copy / del (the older DOSses did not have a MOVE)
grep - ehmmm... there hardly is anything like that in DOS
Unix also teaches you to think and consider again. rm -f does exactly
that, no questions asked.
Paul
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