Deploring *nix Philosophy ( Was Re : Splitting archives across floppies )

[Nathan Ollerenshaw]

Parameshwara Bhat writes:

> This  is a common trait of all *nixes as I am learning.Whatever are the 
> inner strenghts and ideals,the above examples are born out of a lack of 
> respect for the common computer user.Clear message - computer not for 

I don't think its out of respect for the common computer user. Its purely 
out of a desire to make a system more secure than the machines out there 
that let you do anything to them as a 'normal' user.

> I am an educated,thinking individual,but not in computers! but the world 
> of Linux and Unixes have no respect for people like me.They do not seem to 
> want us ( I do not mean to offend all those of you who have so voluntarily 
> shared my troulbes taking them upon you ! )

I hate it when people do this, but sometimes its the best way. If you want a 
*good* understanding of how Linux all fits together, and WHY things like 
redirection are key to the way you work with the system, read the 
"Introduction To Linux" by Machtelt Garrels.

  http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html

Chapters 3 through 5 are especially interesting to users come from Windows, 
as it explains the whole Unix thing that "everything is a file" and about 
redirection and the important role that standard input and standard output 
has for programs, and what kinds of tricks you can expect to do with the 
input and output of a unix tool. 

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