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From: aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: More John Dvorak comments
Message-ID: <2069@stpstn.UUCP>
Date: 8 Sep 88 23:54:28 GMT
References: <18509@neabbs.UUCP> <24516@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <31930@clyde.ATT.COM> <6414@chinet.UUCP> <9861.1988Sep6.15:40:23@mill.me.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri)
Organization: The Stepstone Corporation, Sandy Hook, CT
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In article <9861.1988Sep6.15:40:23@mill.me.toronto.edu> yap@mill.me.UUCP (Davin Yap) writes:
>In article <6414@chinet.UUCP> ward@chinet.UUCP (Ward Christensen) writes:
>	If you think that command.com provides a user freindly shell
>	then I have to conclude that you are deluded or deranged.  Either

agreed.  Commands that won't take multiple arguments?   Gib mir ein break.
Not to mention that wildcards under unix WORK, while under msdos they
most certainly don't.  Match *fo?b* on your pc sometime.

>>  I like Unix.  I "appreciate it" for the environment it fulfills, but
>>I really can't see 10 million PC users preferring the cryptic Unix
>>commands to the more simple DOS commands.

Karel the Robot is even simpler than DOS, and you can do even less with it.

>>use APL, and PMATE is my favorite editor AND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE, in
>>which [S;$@X=1^@X>31^-M9IQR0L] is a program to scan an assembly source
>	Why should you have to go into an editor to do that?  Next time
>	you're on a unix system type, "man sed".

Of course, REAL editors are written in TECO, in which you can write
a relocating linker.

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Anthony A. Datri,SysAdmin,StepstoneCorporation,stpstn!aad