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- From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD? (long)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.233410.15205@global.hacktic.nl>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 23:34:10 GMT
- References: <1992Oct29.230953.1633@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <Bx39s8.FF6@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <Bx4M5p.Cqu@unix.amherst.edu> <Bx5nHu.LD6@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <BxB78J.Ep2@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
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- rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo) writes:
-
- >Why is that more intuitive than 'ls' ? I have to learn CAT ,D2 ...
-
- >Why is that important to have DIR. You can setup 'dir' as an alias for 'ls'.
- >ls -l is not as difficult as DIR /W
-
- Not *because* it is ls, but because most people know DIR and don't know ls. It
- doesn't matter if it's DIR, LIST, LD, CATALOG or ls, as long as it is what the
- user expects. And since DOS, OS/2, AmigaDOS, OS-9 and I guess other systems as
- well use DIR and nog ls, that makes DIR a standard. Hey! Even FTP uses DIR! :-)
-
- >I don't understand what you mean by that. X application works with any
- >window manager. I mean I switch between olwm, tvtwm, NCDwm, and still
- >able to use FrameMaker without a problem.
-
- There is no standard. Just think of Motif as CAT ,D2 and OPEN LOOK as DIR.
- And many applications use their own user interface. It has hardly anything
- to do with minimizing the learning curve. UNIX has an elegant kernel interface
- but not an elegant user interface. :-( And besides that, most programs are
- still character oriented.
-
- >>>Coherent is $99. Minix 1.5 is $169 from Prentice-Hall. 386BSD and
- >>>Linux are free.
- >>Where is free toll-free
- >>phone support for Linux and 386BSD? And where can I buy them?
-
- >I believe there's somebody who is selling Linux and give phone support
- >(somewhere in Europe...).
-
- Not here at least!!! (This is 'somewhere' in Europe ;)
-
- >Also wait for Linux and 386BSD CD-ROMs.
-
- Does that include toll free support? Does that mean that it starts up with a
- GUI by default?
-
-