Yes I can help myself. But not reading a lot of manuals. I use to ask the others who know more. If they won't answer, I use to ask on another list, and so on. It is more simple than reading a lot of manuals. Well, of course I also read manuals, but I don't like the theory. I like only the manuals with examples. Teddy, orasnita at home.ro ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cecil H. Whitley" <cwhitley@xxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 7:30 PM Subject: DOS simple? > Hi again Teddy, > This thread really isn't accomplishing anything other than irratating people > who really don't care about the world of microsoft. Therefore, I have to > make this my last post on the subject. Now, with that said I must take this > opportunity to acquaint you with a little history you apparently are not > aware of. > > DOS was a command line, just like Linux. It had a lot less power and no > built-in networking. Basically, everything for DOS was a "add-on". Then > came windows. For several years (about four I believe) there were no screen > readers. It took another four before M.S. even deigned to talk with > providers of access technology and provide them "hooks" within the windows > GUI. You have come to this product six years after that. That's a total of > fourteen years (not counting the dos years, which we actually should). > Linux celebrated it's tenth year last August. If you've got to b*tch, do it > in four more years. But to be fair, you really should wait nine! > > The "help" command wasn't available in dos until dos version 5. As far as I > know man has been in Linux the entire time. DOS "howto" books tended to be > exactly that, books (that you had to "buy"). Linux howto's are available > for the d/l, if you've got access to the internet and I believe they are > also available on CD that you can also "buy". Appears to me to be at least > "one up" on DOS. In short, microsoft and it's "os's" (and I use the term > very loosely) don't have a wonderfull track record either. They haven't > always been the way you find them today. > > Now to the other underlying issue here. Apparently you define "help" as > someone doing/thinking/deciding for you. Others do not hold that view. > They prefer to "help" by pointing you to the resources that will allow you > to learn/think/decide for yourself. They are not going to change. They are > not going to "do" for you since they wish you to become capable of doing for > yourself. The balance in this equation is that if you learn to help > yourself you will also learn to help others in the same way. I am not > intending this as any sort of "slam", my only intent is to point out what I > see as a "philosophical" difference between you and others on this list. > Most likely this philosophical difference is what made the Linux users on > this list Linux users. > > Best of luck, > > Cecil > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
