Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 09:39:22 -0500 From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[SNIP] > (2) > The online information did not address my needs (and I suspect > that tree-bound versions would suffer similar shortcomings). . . . [SNIP] Understood. Several times, with several subjects, I've felt blocked, balked, & bewildered in much the same way. My solution: I check out tutorial after tutorial, book after book -- till I find one I feel comfortable with. It must be at my level of ignorance (make that 'innocence'), & I have to _like_ the way the author writes. The search always takes time & torment, but in the end it always works. The first time was way back in the bad old DOS days. I knew nothing at all about Unix, but obviously it was the language of the Internet, & I had a shell account at Eskimo. I borrowed a Unix text from Seattle Public Library -- & found it like wading in molasses. I tried at least a dozen intros . . . . Then I ran across Stan Kelly-Bootle's _Understanding UNIX_ (2e 1994 Sybex) & instantly felt right at home with his way of putting things. His book pried the first brick out of the Unix sidewalk; then Unix seemed easy, or at least logical. Right now I, too, feel fated to never understand shell scripts. So it's try, try again. Wendell Cochran West Seattle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
