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- From: duplain@rtf.bt.co.uk (Andy Duplain)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: OS differences and improvements (Was Re: new PC's, what's happening acorn?)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.083907.25862@rtf.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 08:39:07 GMT
- References: <1992Aug26.211041.9706@rdg.dec.com>
- Organization: BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK
- Lines: 22
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- In article <1992Aug26.211041.9706@rdg.dec.com> goodwin@edieng.enet.dec.com (Pete Goodwin) writes:
- >
- >I think even experts would prefer to start life with a much simpler CLI. Or are
- >you saying you _need_ to be an expert? 8)
- >
- Simpler than the bourne/korn/C shell ? Don't you think it's quite
- straight-forward ? Why I say it is expert friendly, is because the
- utility names and the way they are used is alien to most new users
- (who have been tainted with MS-DOS utility names); once you are
- used to it, you find it was worth the effort to get there.
-
- >Since I don't use the CLI much and stay in the desktop, it doesn't make that
- >much difference to me. The filing system can be a pain - 10 character filenames
- >and only 77 files per directory, who imposed that!!!
-
- The backspace/delete cock-up effects you when using an editor,
- regardless of whether the editor was invoked from CLI or DeskTop.
-
-
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- Andy Duplain, BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK. duplain@rtf.bt.co.uk
- #define DISCLAIMER My views and opinions are my own, and not my company's
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