Re: Windows of Unix

I can agree that training schools wouldn't teach Oracle on Unix because they'd have to teach people vi. Wonder how comfortable people are with the "editor" in Windows SQLPLUS.EXE, though .....

Hemant K Chitale
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"Dusan Bolek" <pagesflames_at_usa.net> wrote in message news:1e8276d6.0204290612.65abf437_at_posting.google.com...
> "d.t." <davtsv20_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:<WwWy8.1540$sh6.205593_at_news20.bellglobal.com>...
> > I recently spoke to a counsellor at a training school about an OCP
course.
> > He told me that the reason they train on Windows is because most
companies
> > run Oracle on Windows. That is contrary to what one would find on the
web.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
>
> I do not want to be too harsh, but as I know some "training school"
> the main reason is that Mr. Quick-became-trainer-knows-nothing doesn't
> has a clue about Unix and knows him just as old fashioned maybe even
> ancient operating system with dull text mode without cool pictures on
> desktop and squinting eyes in taskbar.
> Another reason can be that teaching Unix together with Oracle would
> gave a headache to some attendees and double the costs because of need
> to run a two week seminar about vi. ;-)
>
> P.S. Funny thing, vi is like smoking, in the first time it's very
> disgusting, but then it became quickly addictive and you can't live
> without. This weekend I've tried to run some old DOS computer game, so
> I've installed MS-DOS 6.2 as fifth operating system on my home PC and
> I also used a built-in EDIT.EXE editor. It seems very dull to me with
> some stupid Alt-F + Exit commands and my configuration file was very
> soon full of :wq as learned habit works perfectly. :-)
>
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Received on Mon Apr 29 2002 - 09:36:19 CDT