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Date:      Tue, 23 Jan 2001 15:20:48 -0600
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD vs linux 
Message-ID:  <200101232120.f0NLKmn03933@grumpy.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>  of "Mon, 22 Jan 2001 20:59:09 EST." <200101230159.f0N1x9518493@saturn.cs.uml.edu> 

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"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.




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