Re: Windows of Unix

"Howard J. Rogers" wrote:

> 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
> >
> > Note: pagesflames_at_usa.net has been cancelled due to changes (maybe we
> > can call it an overture to bankruptcy) on that server. I'm still using
> > this email to prevent SPAM. Maybe one day I will change it and have a
> > proper mail even for news, but right now I can be reached by this
> > email.

Whats wrong with vi other than the fact that it is probably the greatest single selling point for Windows over UNIX?

I am amazed that someone at Sun or HP hasn't put it out of its misery yet. But I use it enough that I hardly notice that it is brain-dead.

Daniel Morgan Received on Mon Apr 29 2002 - 15:20:21 CDT