21 Apr
2002
21 Apr
'02
6:07 p.m.
On Sunday 21 April 2002 23:03, you wrote:
How can anyone do anything useful with a computer
without the
following? Emacs, TeX/LaTeX, dvips, the Bourne shell for scripts,
ghostview, gimp, xv, PostgreSQL or Oracle, Perl, C, various useful
UNIX utilities (e.g. tar, awk, nawk, grep, sed, dc, ed, diff, cal, at,
bc, od, lint, etc.), to name a very few of the extremely useful
programs that run on UNIX systems.
But what makes it really powerfull is that they plumb together
Lets see lets lookup the func for a case ins string compare
~# what str | grep two | grep case
sptrcasecm, strncasecmp (3) - compare two strings ignoring case
wcscasecmp (3) compare two wide-character strings, ignoring case
wcsncasecmp (3) compare two fixed-size wide-character strings, ignoring case
(( alias what='apropos' ))
I can now lookup the function with man 3 strncasecmp
Now to a WinBloZ idiot, this means nothing,
they are so "Winblows Limited" in their thinking, that device
independence, the ability to have 40 CPUs as headless seemless
networked compute nodes because the interface is network transparent,
( that part of X11 on its own makes winblows look far too stupid
for anyone with a brain)
Or the ability to:
ssh -P -l root viatie "(tar cf - /etc)" | (cat > /viatieetc.tar)
all beyond their understanding
And what would they make a button you click on that does this ?
("SunDT :2 root@Sparc", SHEXEC, "(Xnest :2 -display fubar:0
-nolock -bs -su &) && ssh1 -a -x -k -n -P -q -l root Sparc
'(/root/xnest-desktop 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null)'")),
Its like attempting to explain the shuttle nosewhell servos
to a cave man, they have no frame of reference, and are
too ignorant to have any hint of how ignorant they are.
Raymond