I learned about file permissions off of one email I read from a newbie list, before then if it said to do chmod 755 filename, didn't have a clue what type of permission it was, but reading the man page for chmod told me the utility did change them to allow the user to read, write, and execute, and everyone else to only read and execute. In windows, the only permission you have is the system, hidden, and read-only attributes which are useless, windows won't honor them. At 10:14 AM 12/5/01 -0600, you wrote: >At 04:41 PM 12/3/01 -0500, you wrote: >>install. >>May I now simply suggest that you are wrong if for no other reason than >>that I blind person will be very hard pressed to install Windows at all >>without assistance? > >I'm not sure what I said that you think this disproves. My point is that it >takes more knowledge to run a linux machine than a Windows machine. I never >said windows can be installed without sighted assistance. The original >questioner doesn't have a speech synthesizer so he can't install either >linux or windows without sighted assistance. > >About six months ago, I had a lightning strike at my home and lost the hard >drive on both my Windows 95 and linux 5.2 machines. I bought 2 new hard >drives and got Windows millenium and red hat 7.1 from the university. Since >I don't have a synthesizer, I needed sighted assistance for both installs. >The linux install took a lot longer and took much more technical knowledge. > >But that's okay. Of course it takes more knowledge to install linux than >windows millenium. Linux is way more powerful than windows millenium. > >Windows is "easier" mailnly because doesn't do as much as linux. A good >example of this point is file permissions. Can you even set file >permissions in windows millenium? It doesn't really matter because you >don't need them anyway. > >If you're going to use linux, you probably need to learn about file >permissions. How hard is that? Well, for some people it might be hard. > >Comparing apples to oranges? Yes! In fact, that's partly my point. Linux >does bzillions of things windows doesn't. That's why it takes so much more >knowledge to use. If you're going to use linux, you should be prepared to >go through the process of acquiring that knowledge. Not everybody is going >to want to do that. > >Note too that my own example is rather esoteric. Most machines come with >Windows pre-installed. Even if you replace the hard drive, you can usually >boot from the old one, install windows on the new one, and then reboot from >the new one -- all without sighted assistance. > > > >-- >John G. Heim >WiscINFO Customer Service Coordinator >Division of Information Technology >jheim@doit.wisc.edu >608-262-9887 > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Blinux-list@redhat.com >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > >