> >Adding aliases to the dist, IMO, would be very bad. People would use dir,
> >or md, or whatever, without ever knowing the corresponding Linux commands.
> >What would motivate people to learn the OS this way?
>
> Why should they have to? If the aliases allow the users to get their
> work done easily and without confusion, what difference does it make?
Yeah, but don't you think a pre-existing alias in a particular
distribution would cause confusion? If somebody started new and typed in
md and it worked they would not even wonder if it was a Linux native
command. So they get a job or something where there are Linux machines
and they go and try md and it isn't there, they're gonna go crazy, right?
Wrong? I don't know, it just seems like it's playing the Microsoft game
of making things easy to use at the expense of efficiency and knowing what's
really going on. I really liked the idea of putting a little message in
the alias telling the user that it was a DOS command, they could then
either get rid of the message and continue using md or they could start
using mkdir.
Greg
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