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Re: Even more unix holy wars.
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- Subject: Re: Even more unix holy wars.
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- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 22:25:35 -0800
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Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>Did I mention that DOS used to make you use EDLIN out of the box?
Did I mention that UNIX used to make you use ED out of the box?
> that Unix is somehow harder to use than DOS.
Of course it isn't. Train somebody under BSD (say using csh/tcsh/zsh)
and they are totally prepared to get to work under ksh/bash/sh under
SVR4. The commands are the same and so are the options, on say things
like ps. NOT.
Unix commands are powerful and easy to use. For example, to kill a
process I have to use "ps -aux" or "ps -ef" depending on which flavor
of unix I'm running, note the process id, and do a "kill -9 id". Why
can't I kill a job by name (i.e. I can do a "fg %emacs" but not a
"kill %emacs".)
Unix is filled with design abortions like this.
> that X is harder to use than Windows
How about better Windows software is available?