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- From: goodwin@edieng.enet.dec.com (Pete Goodwin)
- Subject: Re: OS differences and improvements (Was Re: new PC's, what's happening acorn?)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.080035.15100@rdg.dec.com>
- Sender: news@rdg.dec.com (Mr News)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 07:53:55 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- In article <1992Aug27.083907.25862@rtf.bt.co.uk>, duplain@rtf.bt.co.uk (Andy Duplain) writes...
-
- > 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.
-
- I'm sorry but DIR suggests DIRECTORY, TYPE suggests TYPE a file, PRINT suggests
- PRINT a file, SEARCH suggests search.
-
- Now does ls suggest directory, or cat sugggest type or lpr suggest print or
- grep suggest search??? The one command I took from UNIX was cd, which I equate
- to SET DEF in VMS.
-
- Admittedly I'm comparing UNIX with VMS, but the barrier here is the utility
- names are cryptic. They DON'T need to be!!!
-
- Now on RISC OS TYPE is TYPE, LIST is, er, TYPE, PRINT is, er TYPE (why the
- three variations I wonder!), DIR is set directory (nothing like a departure
- eh?), CAT is Catalog (logical I suppose). At least COPY is copy, RENAME is
- rename rather than UNIX: cp or mv.
-
- Whenever I read UNIX shell scripts they read like gibberish. Full of strange
- characters like ~ ` ' # or $. You need to be a real expert to see what's going
- on.
-
- > The backspace/delete cock-up effects you when using an editor,
- > regardless of whether the editor was invoked from CLI or DeskTop.
-
- Only if you've been tainted by MSDOS (using you're description 8) I've never
- used backspace as delete, I've always used DELETE.
-
- Pete Goodwin
- goodwin@system.enet.dec.com
-