Re: RTFM

From: David Dutchison (dd_at_this.here.place)
Date: 04/17/05 

Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 18:40:44 GMT

David <dwmoar@findmoore.net> wrote:
    -snip-
> ...Unlike MS which really tries hard to
> complety hide it [the command line] from the end user.

I'd go a bit farther than that. With DOS 7, they've they tried very
hard to criple it to the point of uslessness, and yet they still
include it.

A bare Windose command shell, without any extentions (like ad-ons that
recognize long file names, and file-name completion), is murder to use,
which is probably why most Win. users don't get the CLI thing. It truly
is something to avoid in windows. 

-- 
David Dutchison
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