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To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
cc: Keith Bostic <bostic@bsdi.com>, current@freebsd.org, jhs@freebsd.org,
        terry@lambert.org
Subject: Re: editors 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 04 Jun 1996 22:02:45 CDT."
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Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 00:52:30 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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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