Re: Re: people with autism
By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Wed May 06 2026 10:03 am

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Correct but, for most young people who don't remember internet before the web, that is mostly all it is... well, that is until apps surplanted the websites.

Want to cripple 2 whole generations? Take away their GUI's. Only GenX and the Boomers would still be able to function. :)
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Correct but, for most young people who don't remember internet before the
web, that is mostly all it is... well, that is until apps surplanted the
websites.

Want to cripple 2 whole generations? Take away their GUI's. Only GenX and the
Boomers would still be able to function. :)

Yep and, for some of us, it might take some memory rattling. :D



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Re: Re: people with autism
By: phigan to Nightfox on Thu May 07 2026 02:10 am

was also a lot of .planning and fingering going on.

GIGITY!!!

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Heck, even as someone who used MS-DOS back in the 90's, as I use it
extensively for the
first time in... thirty years... I'm kinda lost and needing to reference
a cheat sheet
regularly.

And I use *bash* as a daily part of my job. lol on me XD

Gourd

"Mike Powell (VERT/CAPTEST)" wrote:

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Correct but, for most young people who don't remember internet before the
web, that is mostly all it is... well, that is until apps surplanted the
websites.

Want to cripple 2 whole generations? Take away their GUI's. Only GenX and the
Boomers would still be able to function. :)

Yep and, for some of us, it might take some memory rattling. :D

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Re: Re: The Internet
By: Gourd to Mike Powell on Sat Jun 06 2026 10:08 pm

Heck, even as someone who used MS-DOS back in the 90's, as I
use it extensively for the first time in... thirty years... I'm kinda
lost and needing to reference a cheat sheet regularly.

i used to be able to do some amazing stuff. i forgot a lot of it.
i make little cheat .txt files that i look in to remember on my windows and linux machines.

And I use *bash* as a daily part of my job. lol on me XD

Gourd

people at work think i'm some kind of wizard because they saw me open up command prompt and did a search for files and piped them through sort to determine an issue we were having with a test program damaging records.

I will say that i am pretty impressive just visually behind a computer. I
type really fast and it's hard for people to keep up with what i'm doing.
i don't even need to look at what i'm doing; it's all in my head so there's a speed difference between what i'm doing, what i want to do and what shows up on the screen. i'm not bragging, it's just part of my personality defect
where i'm impatient.


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Re: Re: The Internet
By: Gourd to Mike Powell on Sat Jun 06 2026 10:08 pm

Heck, even as someone who used MS-DOS back in the 90's, as I use it extensively for the
first time in... thirty years... I'm kinda lost and needing to reference a cheat sheet
regularly.

I also a few months ago, setup my old t5740e thin client as DOS machine.
I used to write alot of batch files, I had to relearn things I used to know well.


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Heck, even as someone who used MS-DOS back in the 90's, as I use it extensively for the
first time in... thirty years... I'm kinda lost and needing to reference
a cheat sheet
regularly.

And I use *bash* as a daily part of my job. lol on me XD

I have lately caught myself trying to execute linux cli commands at the DOS prompt, and DOS commands at the bash prompt. Luckily, so far, I have not stumbled across one that is super-destructive when accidentally entered at the wrong prompt. ;)


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Re: Re: The Internet
By: Mike Powell to Gourd on Fri May 08 2026 06:25 pm

Heck, even as someone who used MS-DOS back in the 90's,
as I use it extensively for the first time in... thirty years...
I'm kinda lost and needing to reference a cheat sheet regularly.

And I use *bash* as a daily part of my job. lol on me XD

I have lately caught myself trying to execute linux cli commands
at the DOS prompt, and DOS commands at the bash prompt. Luckily,
so far, I have not stumbled across one that is super-destructive
when accidentally entered at the wrong prompt. ;)

that's why you get gnu-utils to have linux programs for windows.


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Re: Re: The Internet
By: MRO to Mike Powell on Fri May 08 2026 04:20 pm

I have lately caught myself trying to execute linux cli commands at the DOS
prompt, and DOS commands at the bash prompt. Luckily, so far, I have not
stumbled across one that is super-destructive when accidentally entered at
the wrong prompt. ;)

That's ok, in the past I've caught myself trying use old Apple DOS commands in both windows and linux. :)

cat/dir/ls Can't we just settle on a single command that will work for all OS's? :)
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Re: Re: The Internet
By: FCpt Dallas Vinson to MRO on Fri May 08 2026 09:59 pm

Re: Re: The Internet
By: MRO to Mike Powell on Fri May 08 2026 04:20 pm

I have lately caught myself trying to execute linux cli

commands at the DOS

prompt, and DOS commands at the bash prompt. Luckily, so

far, I have not

stumbled across one that is super-destructive when

accidentally entered at

the wrong prompt. ;)

That's ok, in the past I've caught myself trying use old Apple DOS
commands in both windows and linux. :)

cat/dir/ls Can't we just settle on a single command that will work
for all OS's? :)

you're replying to the wrong person.


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Denn wrote to Gourd <=-

I used to write alot of batch files, I had to relearn things I used to know well.

I still have Running MS-DOS and Supercharging MS-DOS by Van Wolverton
in my bookcase - they were great at learning the ins and outs of DOS
and batch programming.



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FCpt Dallas Vinson wrote to MRO <=-

cat/dir/ls Can't we just settle on a single command that will work for all OS's?

I used to create aliases for ls under DOS and dir under *nix. Worked
around the industry's lack of vision.



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Re: Re: The Internet
By: poindexter FORTRAN to FCpt Dallas Vinson on Sat May 09 2026 11:29 am

I used to create aliases for ls under DOS and dir under *nix. Worked around the industry's lack of vision.

I've seen people post about doing the following in Linux:
alias fucking='sudo'

Nightfox

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I have lately caught myself trying to execute linux cli commands
at the DOS prompt, and DOS commands at the bash prompt. Luckily,
so far, I have not stumbled across one that is super-destructive
when accidentally entered at the wrong prompt. ;)

that's why you get gnu-utils to have linux programs for windows.

I don't run Windows. In my case, the DOS prompt I am at would either be dosemu, dosbox, or on an actual old DOS 6.22 machine.





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Re: Re: The Internet
By: Mike Powell to MRO on Mon May 11 2026 12:45 am

that's why you get gnu-utils to have linux programs for windows.

I don't run Windows. In my case, the DOS prompt I am at would either
be dosemu, dosbox, or on an actual old DOS 6.22 machine.

they have it for that stuff too. i ran it years ago.


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Re: Re: The Internet
By: Nightfox to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat May 09 2026 11:54 am

I've seen people post about doing the following in Linux:
alias fucking='sudo'

Speaking of that...https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck

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Re: Re: The Internet
By: phigan to Nightfox on Tue May 12 2026 12:13 am

Speaking of that...https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck

haha.. That's pretty cool.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: The Internet
By: phigan to Nightfox on Tue May 12 2026 12:13 am

I've seen people post about doing the following in Linux: alias
fucking='sudo'

I have that set up.

Speaking of that...https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck

It doesn't work with newer versions of python :(

It's integrated as part of my portable bash environment. https://github.com/daitengu/slaane.sh

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