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kmcvay@oneb.wimsey.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay) writes:

>In article <RDesiB5w165w@halcyon.com> ralphs@halcyon.com (Ralph Sims) writes:
>>kmcvay@oneb.wimsey.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay) writes:

>>> That's a good beginning, but what on earth does "LOG" have to do with
>>> changing file AREAS or DIRECTORIES?

>>Maybe because you need to 'log' into a new directory?

>Hiya, old son - long time since tuthernet days, eh? I don't know about
>you big city fellas, but folks around here cut their teeth on my early
>fidotech boards, and they most certainly speak dos and only dos
>98.10221 per cent of the time.

Well, maybe they should take a break from milkin' the cows and learn something
besides a dumb bootstrap loader like DOS...   8-)

Seriously, this sounds like more of the same kind of whining ("..but I'm used
to the *old* way...") that caused DOS to be forever burdened with backwards
compatablility.  It can never truely evolve for this reason.  

>I can't find "log" in my dos manual, and that's the problem. _I_
>figured out what it meant, as have a few of my users, but the vast
>majority hasn't. "CD" they might relate to, but "log" is a foreign
>word..... "A)rea Change" gets immediate response :-)

Well, I can think of a few solutions for you:

1) Don't run Waffle, and forget USENET, and go back to the slow, low volume
Fido-crap.

2) If you have the source, change the commands you don't like.

3) Create a "new user" entry in your INFO section, with a brief description
of how to use the more "confusing" parts of the system.

Hoping you find some of this useful,

Scott

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