Clarke Echols wrote:
... By learning to use the tools, and nothing more complicated than simple shell scripts (I don't have the skills to get fancy because I don't think they're all that necessary when an easier approach works well), I was able to consistently get more done than any 4-10 people around me without straining myself. This is not to brag, but people waste an incredible amount of time and productivity by not learning to exploit the capabilities of a Unix-like machine instead of really dumb PCs.
Amen. I'm lazy too, so I try to let the computer do as much of my work as possible. I once had a boss tell me I was twice as productive as the other two writers put together. While I would argue with the number, it was true that I would script away as much busy-work as possible. And this was on older Macs using AppleScript. Since OSX gave me back the Unix tools I learned so long ago, I've been able to pull miracles out of my... back pocket. Things like sales people asking, "um, can you get the Word file back out of this PDF? Joe Random quit and deleted the doc file." -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival" http://home.alltel.net/kollar/utp/ _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
