Phillip Jones: >On Mac system while the actual system used is FreeBSD UNIX the Apple Mac >Interface does all the UNIX commands and the UNIX is hidden.
Poor Mac. *fg* >This was by design. Apple wanted the users to not worry fiddling a >futzing with the system. This way they lost the power of the command line. >And just be able to get work done with the least amount of >worry The way system really ought to be. It silly to have to type a >command line in a modern system just to get to something that previously >you had a menu choice for. But you cannot have a menu for all of the possibilities you have with the command line. Look at the manpage of a command for all options. It would be a nightmare to invent a menu which covers all. *g* And you have to cover all possible combinations of the options. >I don't know what all this fascination with using command line stuff to >do work. My goodness you were doing that in 1982 and 27 years later you >still want to fiddle with command line. I don't find anything geeky, >nerdy about it just old and out of fashion. There are cases in which menus are adequate for certain tasks. But if something goes wrong or you wish to dig deeper into a problem, the command line is invaluable. And ... but what i am doing here? Argue in English? Me? ... Em, let us forget it. ;) Hartmut _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
