On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Greg Thomas wrote:
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>...but don't you think a pre-existing alias in a particular distribution
>would cause confusion? If somebody started new and typed in md and
>it worked they would not even wonder if it was a Linux native command.
>So they get a job or something where there are Linux machines and they
>go and try md and it isn't there, they're gonna go crazy, right? Wrong?
But that's already going to be the case. Every variant of UNIX (and thus
Linux) is different somehow. There's always going to be some degree of
confusion moving between UNIX and Linux variants.
Another way to look at this: if organizations like Red Hat (and Caldera,
and Debian, ...) don't make an effort to improve the UNIX user interface,
who will? Are we to hope that UNIX will have the same, cryptic interface
in 10 years that it has today, or should we hope that it will improve?
>I don't know, it just seems like it's playing the Microsoft game of
>making things easy to use at the expense of efficiency and knowing
>what's really going on.
The problem with Microsoft is that they make it difficult to get at the
guts of the system. Aliases just disguise the guts, they don't prevent
access to them. I consider that a big distinction.
>I really liked the idea of putting a little message in the alias telling
>the user that it was a DOS command, they could then either get rid of
>the message and continue using md or they could start using mkdir.
Ick.
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