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From: kenk@tellabs.com (Ken Konecki)
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Subject: Re: What can't it do? <Was Re: Rumor -> Loss of...
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Date: 10 Jul 90 13:03:42 GMT
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In article <1990Jul8.220052.24143@spectrum.CMC.COM> lars@spectrum.CMC.COM (Lars Poulsen) writes:
>>> 	- No standard command line interface.  A BIG minus for many power
>>> 	  users.  Try deleting a number of files in nested directories that
>>> 	  satisfy some search criterion with a single command.
>
>In article <28778.269229da@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>
>   ac08@vaxb.acs.unt.edu ((C. Irby)) writes:
>>A real "power user" organizes his or her files a little better than that.

Power users, shmower users. There's no such thing as a power user.
People who use computers are users, plain and simple. Period. End of
story.  I don't know where the term came from, but it's the stupidest
phrase I have ever heard. Can anybody even define what a power user is (as
opposed to a powerless user?).

As for deleting a number of files in nested directories, no CLI
(command line interface) I have ever used can do this. All the ones I
have seen must invoke another program to accomplish it (e.g. the Unix
shells would call the find command). And, with few exceptions, a CLI is
only as good as the programs it invokes.

Cheers,
    -Ken K
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