From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 1 13:54:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 11D7C37B71A for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 13:54:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 86101 invoked by uid 100); 1 Apr 2001 20:54:06 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15047.38254.785715.104557@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 15:54:06 -0500 To: "Rick" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: different language In-Reply-To: <58109002@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rick types: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Please don't do this. Simple send plain text, not plain text and html. On this list, sending HTML (with or without plain text) tends to get you ignored. Most other places, it's just wasted bandwidth. > ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C0BA6B.D6D93500 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Hello All, > I am a long time windows user and a new programmer, Now having said = > that I noticed that when I look to Unix/Linux Os I find you speak a = > different language. This makes it hard for new users to get in the = > Unix/Linux world! A common naming convention > for the windows crowd would help the transition to Unix/Linux. Thank All = > 73's Rick While you're correct about that making things easier for users, the guilty party is MS. Unix terminology predates the existence of MSDOS, much less Windows. A translation dictionary would be a service. Unfortunately, I can't really help with that. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. > > ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C0BA6B.D6D93500 > Content-Type: text/html; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > http-equiv=3DContent-Type> > > > > >

Hello All,

I am a long time windows user and = > a new=20 > programmer, Now having said that I noticed that when I look to = > Unix/Linux Os I=20 > find you speak a different language. This makes it hard for new users to = > get in=20 > the Unix/Linux world! A common naming convention

for the windows crowd would help the = > transition to=20 > Unix/Linux. Thank All 73's Rick

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