-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 01 June 2003 4:30 pm, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote: [actually, I missed the start of the thread, but at some point it was said...]
Fair comments, but given what you suggested (see snipped section) a bit odd, since a luser wouldn't have to know about /dev, and talking about vi, sed, awk and emacs would probably be the best way to get them to run away and never look at linux/unix ever again :)
I don't agree. the /dev/ fs is an important property of Linux/Unix, it is imho important that users realize that ordinary files basically behave in the same way as a mounted floppy, a string of zero's, a string of nulls or a tapedrive. Ie, they have stdin and stdout, and can pipe from or to programs.
[and later on in this thread it was pointed out that "local users" means "secretaries and the like"] In my opinion, about all a secretary would need to know about "/dev" *might* be the fact that the floppy and CD-rom drives are referenced against this instead of things like "A:" and "D:", and this is only in the case when the automount service fails and the secretary is forced into "some form of command line" to enter a "mount" command. (I say "only when automount fails" because for the most part, the system WILL mount the "drives" in an equally cryptic, but certainly more recognizable name, like /media/floppy...) - -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://osnut.homelinux.net/TomEmerson.asc iD8DBQE+2urtV/YHUqq2SwsRAlp4AKDKY2lXW8YC3/sTqDtW6d4oeBJ+PwCgkvhc MmuRIOkoSRmxK8MdfEU/kMk= =y4nb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----