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From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] Good ol' ed (Was *ROFF)
Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 08:18:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180515151810.GE7879@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201805151509.w4FF9axM016451@freefriends.org>

On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 09:09:36AM -0600, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> > In fairness to them, I don't know how you learn the good stuff outside
> > of a terminal room.  I learned so much by watching the screen change
> > and going "WTF?  How did you do that?"
> >
> > There is only so much you can stuff into a manual.
> 
> Indeed. But this can be taught; however, it seems that many of the
> younger generation aren't interested in learning it.  As Clem noted,
> losing the terminal room has had a negative impact on learning.
> 
> (Boy, are we just a bunch of old farts, or what ... :-)

I'm not old, oh, wait.  And get off my lawn!  :)
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Larry McVoy            	     lm at mcvoy.com             http://www.mcvoy.com/lm 


  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-15 15:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-15 12:11 Ron Natalie
2018-05-15 14:17 ` arnold
2018-05-15 14:37   ` Larry McVoy
2018-05-15 14:47     ` Clem cole
2018-05-15 15:12       ` Warner Losh
2018-05-15 15:09     ` arnold
2018-05-15 15:18       ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2018-05-15 15:34         ` Jon Steinhart
2018-05-15 16:36           ` Warner Losh
2018-05-15 23:31         ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-15 16:54 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-05-15 20:04 ` Cág

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