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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: More John Dvorak comments
Message-ID: <797@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 1 Sep 88 16:57:36 GMT
References: <18509@neabbs.UUCP> <24516@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <31930@clyde.ATT.COM> <6414@chinet.UUCP>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
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In article <6414@chinet.UUCP> ward@chinet.UUCP (Ward Christensen) writes:
...I just have to comment to Robert Snyder's #20140 in which he comments on
...John Dvorak's ignorance of DOS for saying that Unix(tm) machines need
...a user friendly shell, while DOS doesn't, then Robert's comment "What
...does he think Command.COM is".
...  I am a heavy DOS user, and casual Unix user, and I think "type" is
...easier to remember than "cat"; "dir" easier than "ls", or even "dir /w"
...than "lc".

Hi, Ward.  You probably find those easier to remember because you have
been using them since CP/M 1.4 - at least.  I wonder which would be
easier to remember if you had started with UNIX.