Re: II Funny

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <59819b$h3i@news.stolaf.edu>,
Peter F Handel  <handel@stolaf.edu> wrote:
>It's even worse when you use IBMs, Sparc's, and tha' GS on a day-to-day
>basis.

   Learn to customize your environment. [Tip: Macs don't let you do
this one tenth as much as other computers, yet another reason why they
suck.] 

   With GNO/ME on the GS and a bunch of aliases, 4DOS on a PC (and
ports of a lot of unix progies, and unix (Linux at home, Solaris on
visi.com), all act roughly the same. All use / as the directory
separator. All use cd, mv, rm, cp, etc. I run emacs under Win95 (yes,
there's a port) and unix; a set of Edit-16 keybindings make it
somewhat similar. All have 'less' for viewing files. All have similar
commandline editing tools. The keyboards on all of them have keys
(mostly caps/control nowadays, but also inverted-T arrow layout, etc)
in the same places.

   Computers are not decorations, they are not there to put a lot of
fluff in the way. They are there to do work, and if something of
theirs is getting in the way, I'll change it until it it's not.

Nathan Mates

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