From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 19 11:46:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA04589 for current-outgoing; Sun, 19 May 1996 11:46:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA04575 for ; Sun, 19 May 1996 11:46:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) id UAA22110; Sun, 19 May 1996 20:15:28 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by knobel.gun.de (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA08755; Sun, 19 May 1996 19:20:48 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 19:20:46 +0200 (MET DST) From: Andreas Klemm To: Paul Richards cc: Michael Smith , kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: /stand/ee In-Reply-To: <199605160955.KAA28639@cadair.elsevier.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 16 May 1996, Paul Richards wrote: > Learning vi is one of those things you have to do to admin an unix box. > If command line editing and mode based editors isn't your thing there > are other OS's you can use :-) Exactly this is one of the reasons why people move to other braindamaged OS like hell (seen on the whole). We have to provide simple tools as well as the traditional ones to make an OS attractive. Don't take me too serious ;-) But this is in my opineon one of the reasons, why windows has won the battle on desktop machines. Better user interfaces and less expensive application would have been a big plus for Unix operating systems ... - -- andreas@knobel.gun.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ $$ Support Unix - aklemm@wup.de $$ pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<< -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMZ9Yb/MLpmkD/U+FAQECUwP/WanK0o5+whkYWvWFLpF8543zdNG1PpFy tPVRs2CDHU6OW5l7yPi4S2jY/Z2tKaZyJq66bw36/6lMt0fSU0JzE03G36ozAkNB QUk2+Nd8Q2siuhp/8ofbtvEJF6RorTLsYjoEIuGShv3A0hGPyA+/WD0oIyFyR09O P8/OheP6stc= =LI/0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----