Maybe you should talk to them about something like linuxconf or YaST.
Point and click will be a bit more familiar for the poor fools. Then if
you were brave you could demonstrate the flexibility of going to /etc
files and showing the changes, and the power of choice between cli or gui
with text config files.
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Jason Rennie wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> Sorry i think i asked a slightly wrong question but thanks for the
> input. I will hopefully use it at the end (if i have time).
>
> These are windows users, getting ready for second or third year computer
> science, who often think unix is scary and hard to use (fools ;)
>
> So I've been asked to do a simply how to get around as a user and not get
> lost/bug people with better things to do, intro.
>
> I was planning to cover the basic commands, the myteries of chmod,
> avilable editors, and maybe a little bit of X. Also the obvious, Unix way
> stuff, and why things are done the way they are. Also xman :)
>
> Have i missed anything ?
>
> Jason
>
>
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