DOS simple?

[Octavian Rasnita]

Yes I can help myself. But not reading a lot of manuals.
I use to ask the others who know more. If they won't answer, I use to ask on
another list, and so on.
It is more simple than reading a lot of manuals.

Well, of course I also read manuals, but I don't like the theory. I like
only the manuals with examples.

Teddy,
orasnita at home.ro

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cecil H. Whitley" <cwhitley at ec.rr.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 7:30 PM
Subject: DOS simple?


> Hi again Teddy,
> This thread really isn't accomplishing anything other than irratating
people
> who really don't care about the world of microsoft.  Therefore, I have to
> make this my last post on the subject.  Now, with that said I must take
this
> opportunity to acquaint you with a little history you apparently are not
> aware of.
>
> DOS was a command line, just like Linux.  It had a lot less power and no
> built-in networking.  Basically, everything for DOS was a "add-on".  Then
> came windows.  For several years (about four I believe) there were no
screen
> readers.  It took another four before M.S. even deigned to talk with
> providers of access technology and provide them "hooks" within the windows
> GUI.  You have come to this product six years after that.  That's a total
of
> fourteen years (not counting the dos years, which we actually should).
> Linux celebrated it's tenth year last August.  If you've got to b*tch, do
it
> in four more years.  But to be fair, you really should wait nine!
>
> The "help" command wasn't available in dos until dos version 5.  As far as
I
> know man has been in Linux the entire time.  DOS "howto" books tended to
be
> exactly that, books (that you had to "buy").  Linux howto's are available
> for the d/l, if you've got access to the internet and I believe they are
> also available on CD that you can also "buy".  Appears to me to be at
least
> "one up" on DOS.  In short, microsoft and it's "os's" (and I use the term
> very loosely) don't have a wonderfull track record either.  They haven't
> always been the way you find them today.
>
> Now to the other underlying issue here.  Apparently you define "help" as
> someone doing/thinking/deciding for you.  Others do not hold that view.
> They prefer to "help" by pointing you to the resources that will allow you
> to learn/think/decide for yourself.  They are not going to change.  They
are
> not going to "do" for you since they wish you to become capable of doing
for
> yourself.  The balance in this equation is that if you learn to help
> yourself you will also learn to help others in the same way.  I am not
> intending this as any sort of "slam", my only intent is to point out what
I
> see as a "philosophical" difference between you and others on this list.
> Most likely this philosophical difference is what made the Linux users on
> this list Linux users.
>
> Best of luck,
>
> Cecil
>
>
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