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- By Guido Gonzato <Guido@ibogfs.cineca.it>
- April 26, 1996
- Version 1.1
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- Preface
-
- This mini-HOWTO is dedicated to all the (soon to be former?) DOS users who
- have just taken the plunge and decided to switch to Linux, the Un*x clone
- for 386+ computers.
-
- When I first installed Linux on my PC I wanted to be up and running
- straight away - I suppose it's what just everyone wants. You may know that
- DOS can be viewed as a lame and kinky subset of Un*x. Well: being a
- seasoned DOS user, I realised that I already knew a few things that were
- similar among the two os's: the concepts of filesystem, directories,
- environment variables, running programs and .BAT files, and a few other
- things. The purpose of this document is to help the reader translate his or
- her knowledge of DOS into the Linux environment, so as to be productive
- asap. Just a few pages to read in bed when your partner is not there, or,
- better, to keep on hand next to your PC.
-
- I'd like to stress that this is *not* an introductory course on Linux. I
- strongly recommend that the beginner get a copy of Matt Welsh's "Linux
- Installation and Getting Started", available on sunsite.unc.edu and its
- mirrors in directory /pub/Linux/docs/LDP; it's really well written and easy
- to understand. Scores of HOWTO and FAQ documents are also available. This
- work is there not as an alternative to those docs, but simply because there
- must be many freaks out there who, like me, long to use Linux after reading
- 20 pages instead of 200+.
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-