On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 09:01:16PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > We who used MS-DOS in 1985 were not appreciably smarter than people > are now, yet we figured out DIR & COPY & DEL & CD. A HELP command > and a set of DOS-friendly aliases (and/or scripts) would/should be > adequate. > Yes, but much of today's generation created a conception of using computers based on the movie "Hackers" (and no, I am not kidding). The concept of using a command line to "gasp" type in commands is intensely frightening to people. Of course, I personally find it humorous since people are condescending about Linux not being ready for the desktop or the enterprise and then don't bat an eyelash when the instructions to something start: "click Start->Run and type regedit". I agree that a help command and a set of DOS-friendly aliases *should* be enough, but since MS neutered the command.com interface a long time ago to the point where it ceased to be useful, I don't see how having such things would be helpful to any but a diminishingly small minority of users. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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