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- From: st1y2@elroy.uh.edu (Gray, William W.)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: Training users
- Date: 5 Jan 1993 00:48 CST
- Organization: University of Houston
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- In article <1993Jan4.230449.3269@pacdata.uucp>, jimh@pacdata.com (Jim Harkins) writes...
- >My boss wants me to give a 2-3 hour training session on using Unix more
- >effectively. I was wondering if any of you had already done such a thing and
- >had some notes you could email me? My user's have been using Unix for about
- >1 year, half of them have workstations on their desks and the others use telnet.
- >Most of them don't seem to be willing to teach themselves, several still can't
- >seem to grasp the man command. It's truly amazing how someone can ask me
- >a question, then watch as I type 'man foo', put my finger on the screen, and
- >read off the answer! Yet these people will be back in a day or two with
-
- hehehehehehe, and have you ever been beeped on a Sunday afternoon becasue the President of your company can not seem to get his `personal` printer
- working? Only to find out that he (as he calls himself a SUPERUSER)
- forgot to plug the fraggen thing into a socket!
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- Or even better yet, users that can not seem to remember that
- rm -r *
- is not a good thing to do to their files?
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