I already mentioned this to Mark, but it is a good way to understand why unix shells work the way they do: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy
One suggestion that I have, if you can, is to put /home and any other directory trees that have data, rather than system files on them, on a disk other than you root / system disk. This way, if you want to try another distribution, you can easily swap system drives and immediately have all of your important data. It also makes it easy to back up all of your important data. One thing that is a little bit inconsistent is that there are two main editors: vi and emacs. Commands like "less" (less is more, only better) use the vi search commands ( /, ?) while bash (the command line) uses the emacs search commands: ^R and ^S. The vi and emacs religious war would put ford/chevy or nikon/canon debates to shame, and is only slightly less productive. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
