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Article #537Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]
From: Jim Williams
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1995 22:36
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1995 22:36
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PJ <pjuang@hawking.nhgs.tec.va.us> wrote: Is there >a Unix manual somewhere besides using "man" and "apropos"? And I know that a >Windows and OS/2 manual is around here somewhere. At least for Linux/GNU there's a real manual. It's called the source. > You do have a point, though. As with DOS, I'm sure Unix and the MacOS have >lots of undocumented commands that you can't get by reading the manual. I've >found several myself. Again, with Linux/GNU everything is there to be studied at your leasure. No hidden trapdoors. No questions about what the vendor might have your machine send through the network without your consent. And if there's a bug you don't have to go to some particular vendor and beg to have it fixed -- if you can't fix it yourself there are plenty of others who can. -- Jim Williams. Find a Linux/GNU User Group near you: http://www.tiac.net/users/williams/lugnuts/ Check out: http://www.greanpeace.org/
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sundog.tiac.net!usenet From: Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?] Date: 4 Aug 1995 22:36:06 GMT Organization: Elision Message-ID: <3vu7cm$hom@sundog.tiac.net> References: <DCM2z5.9Ex@nntpa.cb.att.com> <danpop.807281008@rscernix> <hotelca-0108952347170001@192.0.2.1> <danpop.807383895@rscernix> <hotelca-0308950320190001@192.0.2.1> <3vtnpq$oph@reznor.larc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: elision.tiac.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit)