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- From: papresco@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod)
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD (long)
- Message-ID: <BxKKtu.MMM@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- Sender: news@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <1992Nov3.003038.12400@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <RICH.92Nov4093932@rich.kastle.com> <1ddle0INNfn5@uranium.sto.pdb.sni.de>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 20:56:17 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- >>As far as OS/2 (and AmigaDOS, BTW) goes, only one file matching the
- >>pattern (unix parlance) [Mm][Yy][Ff][Ii][Ll][Ee] can exist in a
- >>directory.
- >
- >Geez, I can't count how often I saved a version of a file by typing
- > mv Driver.o Driver.O
- > mv source.c source.C
-
- And what's so evil about Driver.bak, or driver.1,driver.2. There are
- 100 ways to differentiate two files with close names, case sensitivity
- is only one.
-
- >My 2ct:
- >UNIX doesn't have these "user friendlyness" of DOS, because it isn't DOS
- >that's user friendly, it's the applications that were written for it.
- >One OS is no more "user friendly" than the other.
- >
- True, the problem is there are people, in this very newsgroup, who see
- no reason to try to make user friendly applications for unix. To them,
- if you can't use VI right off the bat, or enjoy learning obscure,
- nonsensical, illogical keystrokes, you should go back to the mac.
- THIS will kill Unix.
-
- If people like you say: Let's see how we can 'layer' this ugly operating
- system with nice applications, shells and help functions.
-
- BTW, while I maintain that comparing unix to DOS is useless, DOS does
- come with a quite user friendly (though poor for power-users) shell.
-
- I have set up that shell many, many times, and people who couldn't
- copy a file suddenly can back up their systems, copy, move, delete
- and edit. I, for one, hate the thing. But I recognize it's value to
- new users. Unix could do the same thing. Probably someone has written
- it.
-
-