"Steven C. Darnold" wrote: > > Day Brown wrote: > > > > I've read windoz users who looked at a nix distribution > > and said fuck you. > > They would say exactly the same thing about DOS. > > > They were just utterly clueless. Had there been > > 'training wheels' there'd be a lot more nix users. > > Linux already has 'training wheels'. The popular Linux > distros have a brain-dead point-and-click interface > (just like MSwindows) that even the 'utterly clueless' > should be able to use. Granted, COREL/DEBIAN WordPefect looked simple to me, and I showed it to some win users; some refused to look, some did, and said, 'awesome'. But what I refer to, (and oh how I wish english was less ambiguous. 'it depends on what the meaning of is, is.') is dos users, who have some idea of file and directory structure, file attributes, and scroll bar menu systems like MC, scripts/batch... And yes, I am grateful for the dos shell tip guys. As for German, lately I've seen 'zie' which means he/she and 'zer' or maybe 'zem' for him/her, which is to say, an unspecified sex.. seems useful.. used on a list where political correctness is more important. I dunno if that butchers German or not. but if German, or any other language has words we can use which are not so ambiguous as what standard english has, why not? Tocharian is great; they have three forms of 'was'; that which was-and-is no more, was-and still is, was-and-will continue to be. And another subjunctive form indicating that which might have been, or might still be, or might continue... Even got an 'if/else' Boy, wish I could write batch programs in Tocharian. :) 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
