Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:09:26 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@webnology.com> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Back to school Message-ID: <19990129090926.J8473@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9901280956350.17961-100000@mercury.webnology.com>; from Jasper O'Malley on Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 10:03:38AM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901280937450.637-100000@localhost> <Pine.LNX.4.02.9901280956350.17961-100000@mercury.webnology.com>
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On Thursday, 28 January 1999 at 10:03:38 -0600, Jasper O'Malley wrote: > > Let's be completely honest, guys. We look like a bunch of zealots when we > exaggerate. It's equally easy in both a UNIX/X environment and a Winblows > environment to delete a file whose full path you know. > > UNIX/X: > > 1) Open an Xterm > 2) rm /full/path/to/file > > WINBLOWS: > > 1) Start -> Run -> command > 2) del "/full/path/to/file" Well, yes, I know there are other ways to do these things. When I'm forced to use Microsoft, I open an ``MS-DOS Command Prompt'', effectively a toy xterm. My main comment was that this is the way they're taught to do it (``and it's simple''). Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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