On Sunday 14 January 2007 20:52, J Sloan wrote: > Marc Wilson wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 07:49:45PM -0800, J Sloan wrote: > > ... > > > > I see no difference there myself... remember the drive letter, or > > remember where you mounted the partition. What's the difference? > > The difference is, the windoze user would have to use the correct > drive letter. And the backward slashes, they seem strange to me.
Windows doesn't care whether you use forward or backward slashes. They both work in most contexts. > > I find myself at work typing things like "/e/stuff/morestuff" when > > I meant "e:\stuff\morestuff" all the time. The paradigm just > > flows. :) > > In linux, I let the tab key complete my sentences... Get Cygwin (<http://cygwin.com/>). Your Linux habits will be well catered to there. It has symlinks, so you can (and I always do) set up links in / for the drive letters, just like your /e/stuff/... example. It has BASH so command completion is supported. There's a full complement of Gnu tools and lots of other open source packages. For those who must use Windows, Cygwin is de rigueur. > Joe Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
