On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Steve "Stevers!" Coile wrote:
> the case, prompts are and always have been a very personal thing.
I think it's the first thing in a long time that we agreed on :)
> But that's good for newbies. In a multi-user environment such as an
> ISP, adding "-i" to everything is *very* valuable. When I completely
I disagree. If you have to hit 'y' every time you issue a command, you
just start hitting 'y' all the time. Soon it is no benefit at all, but
the hassle never goes away.
> Not always good in multi-user environments. Not all terminal emulators
> handle colors very well.
Which ones don't? All the common terminal emulators I know of either
ignore the color information or simply make colored text bold or
underlined or something they can do. The only exception being that some
colors on my Apple // show up garbled, but I don't worry too much about
that. :)
> For instance, if the user wants to define the $ORGANIZATION environment
> variable, they need only put the defintion they want into a file named
> "organization" in their ".shellconf" directory. The advantage is that
That's kind of neat.
> Except "dir" is not strictly a DOS command, and its existance in DOS
> doesn't preclude its existance in any other environment. There's no
No, but it's most common in DOS, and the majority of users who will be
unfamiliar with the Unix command set will come from a DOS background. The
most common OS's are DOS/Windows (which obviously follows the DOS command
set), Unices (where the users will already know the right commands),
Macintosh (which has no legacy command line at all), OS/2 (which also uses
the DOS command set), and a small fraction of VMS users (who probably will
at least be prepared to learn some new commands). I don't think we need
to worry about users coming from a Commodore 64, Apple //, or CP/M
background (and CP/M uses the DOS commands anyway, or vice versa :) ). In
short, I think, the DOS command set is the only one worth worrying about.
> reason Linux can't also have a "dir" command.
Except that the appropriate command for this in Linux is 'ls'. It is hard
enough to go from one OS to another and learn all the commands, even
between BSD and SysV based Unices. How much worse would it be if every
installation of Linux had a different set of commands too.
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