Re: [PLUG] Real Men Don't Click

2010-06-07 Thread mhewan1
c Subject: Re: [PLUG] Real Men Don't Click On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Joe Shisei Niski wrote: > Would that be the good 'ol MKS Toolkit from Mortice Kern Systems? Yes. I used it from the mid-1980s until mid-1997 when I switched completely to linux. Rich _

Re: [PLUG] Real Men Don't Click

2010-06-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Joe Shisei Niski wrote: > Would that be the good 'ol MKS Toolkit from Mortice Kern Systems? Yes. I used it from the mid-1980s until mid-1997 when I switched completely to linux. Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org

Re: [PLUG] Real Men Don't Click

2010-06-07 Thread Galen Seitz
Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Joe Shisei Niski wrote: > >> yes, but the MS-DOS command languagewas sooo limited compared to its IXen >> *contemporaries - especially for scripting - that it was truly >> pitiful from the beginning. The current standard MS-Win command shell >> isn't much

Re: [PLUG] Real Men Don't Click

2010-06-07 Thread Joe Shisei Niski
On 06/07/2010 02:43 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Joe Shisei Niski wrote: > >> yes, but the MS-DOS command languagewas sooo limited compared to its IXen >> *contemporaries - especially for scripting - that it was truly >> pitiful from the beginning. The current standard MS-Win

Re: [PLUG] Real Men Don't Click

2010-06-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Joe Shisei Niski wrote: > yes, but the MS-DOS command languagewas sooo limited compared to its IXen > *contemporaries - especially for scripting - that it was truly > pitiful from the beginning. The current standard MS-Win command shell > isn't much of an improvement. Joe,

Re: [PLUG] Real Men Don't Click

2010-06-07 Thread Joe Shisei Niski
On 06/07/2010 09:27 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Aaron Burt wrote: > > >> Understandable, though, given that *nix has always been CLI, and had to >> funcion well that way, and Windows and its "ecosystem" is new to it. >> > But DOS wasn't new to CLI. > > Rich yes, but

Re: [PLUG] Real Men Don't Click

2010-06-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Aaron Burt wrote: > Understandable, though, given that *nix has always been CLI, and had to > funcion well that way, and Windows and its "ecosystem" is new to it. But DOS wasn't new to CLI. Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.p

Re: [PLUG] Real Men Don't Click

2010-06-07 Thread Aaron Burt
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 11:01:15AM -0700, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 08:20:48PM -0700, Mike Connors wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > > > A story of System Administration the *nix way: > > >http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/realmen/ > > > >

Re: [PLUG] Real Men Don't Click

2010-06-06 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 08:20:48PM -0700, Mike Connors wrote: > On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > > A story of System Administration the *nix way: > >http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/realmen/ > > > > I'd be very interested to see them revisit this and put Powershell (M$ > an

Re: [PLUG] Real Men Don't Click

2010-06-05 Thread Mike Connors
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > A story of System Administration the *nix way: >http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/realmen/ > > I'd be very interested to see them revisit this and put Powershell (M$ answer to shell scripting) to the test. ___

[PLUG] Real Men Don't Click

2010-06-05 Thread Michael Rasmussen
A story of System Administration the *nix way: http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/realmen/ -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Trading kilograms for kilometers since 2003 Be appropriate && Follow your curiosity http://www.jamhome.us/ The Fortune Cookie Fortune today is: Sus