Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 00:52:30 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> Cc: Keith Bostic <bostic@bsdi.com>, current@freebsd.org, jhs@freebsd.org, terry@lambert.org Subject: Re: editors Message-ID: <8374.833961150@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Jun 1996 22:02:45 CDT." <Pine.NEB.3.93.960604215814.422U-100000@Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu>
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> How about some code that detects new users? When it does, then > an ascii graphic Wizard will come on the screen and help the user > through their tasks. There could be a wizard to explain all > cool features, and sepcial help for recovering WordPerfect > users... Har har. Actually, it's sort of considered "cool" in the UNIX world to bash Microsoft and Apple as somehow less than macho, the inference being that UNIX is far more of a power tool and would not lower itself to being used by mere users. In reality, the best compromise lies somewhere in between. Make a tool stand out of your way when you know how to use it, give it some standardized way of documenting itself when you don't. Very few operating systems have managed this kind of balance, which is why most of them SUCK in one or more fairly major degrees. Jordan
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