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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!144.212.100.12!news.mathworks.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!psinntp!news.nstn.ca!tor.istar!east.istar!news.globalserve.net!usenet From: Gene Wilburn <njo@interlog.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Betting on Unix Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 19:14:28 -0500 Organization: Globalserve Communications Inc. Lines: 14 Message-ID: <330CE8E4.6AF0@interlog.com> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <5daq9b$tck@usenet1y.prodigy.net> <32F90AEB.41C6@osf.org> <5dbapu$t1f$1@nntp2.ba.best.com> <x7n2ti4s7i.fsf@dumbcat.codewright.com> <5dc7qq$hed@phoenix.sysbe.sysgo.de> <5ddcvf$4dh@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> <330a1d23.2419719@172.15.0.208> <5ef5c8$rgs@arktur.rz.uni-ulm.de> <330B2333.38B6@to.me.please> <5ehglc$lef@innocence.interface-business.de> Reply-To: njo@interlog.com NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin670.globalserve.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:160285 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2579 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:54070 comp.os.os2.advocacy:269100 J Wunsch wrote: > You are probably right with some of your statements, but you err with > one: vi is everything else than ``most simple''. (No, you don't need > to explain me vi in your followup. I'm using it, as well as one or > two other editors.) vi is a kind of shibboleth. If you can learn it, you can learn the rest of Unix/Linux. If not, it's off to Microsoft with ye. Cheers, Gene --- Gene Wilburn, Toronto, ON, Canada | njo@interlog.com Northern Journey Online: http://www.interlog.com/~njo/