I like to say that: "If you liked DOS, you're going to love Linux." And, to put it differently: "Linux is everything you ever wanted DOS to be." On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Geoff Shang wrote: > Hi: > > Well, yeah. Dos is kinda badly modeled on unix shells, so if you were once > at home in dos then you will probably get on just fine in linux. Most > commands are a bit different and do much more than their dos equivalents, > but they'll look familiar. For example, cp instead of copy, cat instead of > type, rm instead of del, ls instead of dir. You can pipe and redirect > output (e.g. "ls |more" or "ls >filelist.txt"). Directories are seperated > with slashes (/) not backslashes, and you don't have drive letters, just > mount points. For example, I have the windows drives on the network > mounted under /windows, but I could have them anywhere I wanted, really. > > I could go on a bit, but instead you might want to read the dos-to-linux > howto or the win95 to linux howto. I've not read either, but they might be > of some help in transposing certain concepts. > > Actually, the howtos are a great place to start, I read a lot there when I > got started. You can find them at http://www.linuxdocs.org. Just be aware > of how old they are and try to get the most recent one before you read it. > If it's really old (like at least a year) then chances are it's quite out > of date, depending on the subject, so you might want to ask around for a > more up-to-date source of information. > > Geoff. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) janina at afb.net (202) 408-8175 http://www.afb.org/gov.html The invention of the printing press has been named the crowning achievement of the past millennium. Yet, electronic publishing will soon eclipse it. Read our White Paper: "Surpassing Gutenberg" available at: http://www.afb.org/ebook.html Are you developing software? Make it accessible to blind computer users. Read http://www.afb.org/technology/accessapp.html to learn how.
