Nice blog. Berkeley Doe used to have core stacks like those you describe. It was an almost mystical experience on somedays. It felt like a timewarp, something from long ago. You felt like a scholar.
As for unix, I miss my old FreeBSD box. Every once in awhile, I'd have to research a command, which was always available via the manual. There were also the e-mail lists to wonder through, and a couple of books with useful documentation. Find and grep were particularly powerful, but tricky. I once spent a couple of weeks with java after setting up a code envirnoment on my home unix system---a major hurdle. Sun made the environment and its tools available for download, but they also made the download almost impossible to use and you were on your own with the configuration. I thought java was the nighmare of nightmares. CG _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
