On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 01:30, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
Please sent your replies to the list, not to me personal, thanks.
Sorry about that.
Oh, and please configure your MUA to include reply tokens, otherwise trying to find out who wrote what becomes somewhat tiresome.
If by "reply token" you mean an indicator of who wrote the quoted material I have to ask if you're blind. You wrote the whole snipped lot, and there is a "Theo v. Werkhoven wrote" attribution. Please adjust *your* mailer to add proper quote marks. In your mail it appears that I wrote the "I thought this was about..." paragraph, which was a quote from your mail and indicated as such in the mail I sent to you.
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.
No it isn't. It is completely useless knowledge for, say, the company secretary. In fact, it is worse than useless, since it's just distracting from his/her real work. There are users for whom that type of knowledge would be useful. And then there are most users, for whom it is not.
Knowing a thing or two about the /ever present/ standard text processor tools is usefull too, if only to give them a feel for the power of these tools for future uses.
For most regular users there are not now, nor will there ever be a time when sed, awk of vi is useful. This is why companies have admins. It is extremely detrimental to the "linux on the desktop" movement to include this type of material in "luser" classes. It scares people away.