> "GarryH (k@w)" wrote: > > > > Day: > > > > > I dont see why someone did not design a nix shell with the > > > same name commands doing the same thing as they do in > > > dos. > > > > Could it be because *nix was here first? And after you wrote > > a shell that treated '\' (backslash) like '/' (slash), and responded > > to 'dir' with formatting familiar to DOS users, and changed the > > handling of '*' wildcards so that '*rc' and '*whatever*' no longer > > worked, would you then gut the shell logic so that looping and > > case structures no longer worked? No. this is a _SHELL_ Garry. You all who know how to use bash or whatever you like can stick with it. I'm suggesting something for old dos users who might like to try it. > > > And what would you do with all the extra commands and tools > > that "aren't familiar" to a DOS user? Would you just blow off > > things like 'command -switches args &' for running a program > > in the background? In DRDOS that's called a TSR; maybe I want it to catch a fax while I'm doing something else? But if there are, and there prolly are functions that dos dont have, then fine, put them in the dos version shell. > > > You can alias some of the DOS commands, but if you really > > want DOS behavior, then I guess your shell should be dosemu > > (or DOSemu, or DosEmu, or whatever). No I aint that picky Garry. If I got files on the drive, I dont care all that much whether the jpg or .pdf or whatever is ext2, 16bit, or 32 bit dos partitions. all I care about is whether I can access them. > > My main problem with a "dos" shell for *nix is that it would > > tend to lead a user along thinking paths that are not really > > appropriate in *nix. The Unix family really is quite another > > beast. It isn't the differences that trip you up, it's the > > similarities -- DOS is a bastard child of Unix -- and the > > expectations created by the similarities. Fine, let those who feel that way, and worry about that run the risk of missing functionality that nix offers they might need. Mind offering some examples? What I am struck by, is that this wheel does not yet seemta be invented. Demanding that everyone learn the nix shell the way you want them to is fine, which is why I've read windoz users who looked at a nix distribution and said fuck you. They were just utterly clueless. Had there been 'training wheels' there'd be a lot more nix users. which might, or might not, be a bad thing. I kinda like the way the steep learning curve keeps out the riff raff. It's kinda like the old BBS days. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
