Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Sunday 14 January 2007 20:52, J Sloan wrote:
Marc Wilson wrote:
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 07:49:45PM -0800, J Sloan wrote: ...
I see no difference there myself... remember the drive letter, or remember where you mounted the partition. What's the difference? The difference is, the windoze user would have to use the correct drive letter. And the backward slashes, they seem strange to me.
Windows doesn't care whether you use forward or backward slashes. They both work in most contexts.
hmm, didn't know that changed. So it's sort of like the upper/lower case distinction - unix cares, and microsoft doesn't.
I find myself at work typing things like "/e/stuff/morestuff" when I meant "e:\stuff\morestuff" all the time. The paradigm just flows. :) In linux, I let the tab key complete my sentences...
Get Cygwin (http://cygwin.com/). Your Linux habits will be well catered to there. It has symlinks, so you can (and I always do) set up links in / for the drive letters, just like your /e/stuff/... example. It has BASH so command completion is supported. There's a full complement of Gnu tools and lots of other open source packages.
Yeah, I've heard that mentioned in positive terms many times by those chained to windoze. But for me, there really wouldn't be much point. I do all my work and play in linux, by choice. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org