My $.02+ :
Most people want the same convenience out of the PC that they get from
their TV, microwave and automobile. It doesn't take a mechanic to drive
to the grocery store, or a electronics repairman to watch a ball game.
A pushbutton dinner or a point and click Email are the same concept.
How many people even get up and cross the room to change TV stations?
We all use the remote. The mouse is the PC "remote".
There are so many technical things already in many people's lives that
they must pick and choose which ones to learn in depth. For us to
demand that they learn batch files (or Linux scripts) and the command
line before they use Email or surf WWW, is kind of like requiring them
to learn the scientific names and original habitat of the ancestors of
the flowers they plant in their window boxes.
Personally, I use both the command line and a DOS GUI named Arachne.
I certainly could write this Email at copy con and send it from the
command line using switches, but what would be the point? CLI has
benefited from the ease of point and click. So many more people are
willing to be exposed to PCs that there are many more of us who dug a
little and learned some of the basics than ever before. There is
probably as much new DOS development now as at any time.
Most people have too many other things on their plates. We can't fault
them for that.
Peace
Dale Hoogeveen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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