At 11:11 PM 2/6/2003 -0600, you wrote:
<snip>Back in the olden days, when 'internet' would bring blank stares from the few folks who were just startin to run a new fangled thing called Windoze on their store bought systems... long before AoL CD's were sold/included with everything, or just plain showed up unsolicted in your mail box .... Hell, what's a cdrom? has it been invented yet? A floppy must be these bendable 5" disks, these newer 3" suckers must be what they call harddisks ..... some of us oldies already were connected to shell accounts to the net, or into local BBS's. Many of us already unaware that there was somethin out there better than, or besides DOS for a PC. Shell accounts were foreign in that you were connecting to a Un*x box remotely, somewhere in somebody's kitchen closet. DOS comands wouldn't work, you had to learn some unix jargon. No problem, we weren't confirmed braindead M$ users back then. Gates himself hadn't mastered spelling 'internet'. Took him a while at that ;) Everything was done on the CL, including using lynx to venture out into this strange world of www, or w3 as it might be called. D/l'g, what's that? Gopher, archie ? Seemed normal to d/l to your shell account, then if you needed it locally, to havt'a d/l again from the shell server to your desktop's local drive. All on the CL. Better hurry up too, cause a generous allotment was 5mb stored in your shell/user/dir on the server. Learn how to use CL arguments fast or die tryin.
Heh I remember most of this stuff. Archie..hm.. theres an archaic way to surf & get info/stuffs. *snickers* 3" floppies... ya they were "hard disks" all right... least thats what I thought. :)
IMNSHO, learnin how to do it on the CL, any OS, will enlighten your
understanding of how to use the GUI's that others have made to run
the underlying binaries. Probly better too, from the CL that is.
OTOH, I use Kmail ;>
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Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
And I agree with you about CLI learning. Its why I've started to investigate this stuff.
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