From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 23 13:21:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-56-129.knology.net [24.214.56.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5F1B37B402 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:21:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0NLKmn03933; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 15:20:48 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Message-Id: <200101232120.f0NLKmn03933@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "Albert D. Cahalan" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs linux In-reply-to: Message from "Albert D. Cahalan" of "Mon, 22 Jan 2001 20:59:09 EST." <200101230159.f0N1x9518493@saturn.cs.uml.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 15:20:48 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Albert D. Cahalan" writes: > > David Kelly writes: > > A small thing but last time I sat at a Linux keyboard "dir" did > > the DOS thing, by default. > > ROTFL!!! > > How did you discover this? Perhaps you typed "dir" at the prompt? > Fortunately, the command was there when you needed it. :-) > > I'm sure this command is really detrimental to the system. Heh. Actually it was detrimental. It wasn't *my* Linux box but one belonging to a fellow employee I was helping. He couldn't figure out why "dir /w" wasn't doing what he expected. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message