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On Monday 12 February 2007 21:16, Robin Menneer wrote: > Add to this the horrible awareness that perhaps one character mishtyped > mght freeze the machine up so much that expensive professional aid has to > be got. It's when one doen't know, that the command line threatens. So instead they glibly accept yes on a message box. Its time people got past the microsoft lie - most problems cannot be simplified to the point of a button click. If a 'problem' has 146 inputs then it has 146 inputs and that looks just as scary on one window as it does on a terminal. A computer is good at repetition but you still have to understand the problem and the compter to make it really work for you. To use the car as an analogy - when driving you cant ignore your indicators and mirrors and expect to live - unless you drive a BMW. Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html