Oliver Mason kirjoitti 17. des. 2006 kello 22.21: But yes, there are situations when people will insist on using Windows, so if anyone has a reference to a set of DOS commands...
Sorry to be a bit off-topic, but where if not at university would students be able to learn about Unix? I am stunned that anybody can get any serious work done in text processing *without* the multitude of useful Unix commands.
So am I. From a pedagogic point of view I'd say that it would be the best solution to gently introduce the students to the idea that there are other operating systems besides Windows, and they might even be more suitable for academic work. With the free availability of Linux on live-CDs there is no real excuse anymore...
I agree. I don't want to start a flame war about the relative merits of this or that OS, but why not expose the students to Unix rather than find a complicated way of emulating some of its powers on a DOS command-line within Windows?
As long as they are students on my coursed I give them Unix (Mac OSX, as it is the preferred OS of our faculty). So, at least I agree with you, and there will be no flame wars.
For me, the problem arises when I cooperate with projects off-campus, who have already bought their equipment (no Macintoshes!) and insist on using Windows (they have no Linux support within a radius of 800 km). That's why I ask for dos advices.
Trond.
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