Re: Windows of Unix

vi???????????????????

Phragggh!

I make my students use emacs, and to hell with their moans and groans!

(Actually, I use pico, which is notepad enough for me to cope. Windows-aware students can do likewise if so inclined.)

I confess that once, when training at a remote outpost with no access to pico, I was reduced to ftp'ing the init.ora across to the Windows PC, editing it in notepad, and ftp'ing it back again. It was a humiliating experience, but effective!

Regards
HJR "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. :-)
>
> --
> _________________________________________
>
> Dusan Bolek, Ing.
> Oracle team leader
>
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Received on Mon Apr 29 2002 - 14:16:59 CDT