[lbo-talk] Meditations on UNIX

[Dwayne Monroe]

Joanna:

I need to relearn UNIX because of changes at work, and
it sure looks like DOS is just a dumbed down version
of UNIX with the slashes (/) reversed.

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There's much truth to this, in a general sense; that
is, the true pedigree of MS DOS is an OS named CP/M
(Control Program for Microcomputers)

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M>

and CP/M's command interface design concepts were
drawn from the common stream of ideas that fed into
the creation and continued modification of UNIX.

But that's a topic for another day.

As to UNIX quick guides, I suggest these:

Learn UNIX in 10 minutes. Version 1.2 

<http://freeengineer.org/learnUNIXin10minutes.html>

Wikibooks UNIX Guide

<http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Guide_to_UNIX_commands>

And if you're really interested in the MS DOS story,
check this out:

History of MS DOS

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS>

Of course, because of your environment, you'll no
doubt be using SOLARIS and there are some command line
differences so you may want to try this:

<http://www.hta-bi.bfh.ch/Resources/Computing/SunGroup/Info/QuickRef/>

or, my personal favorite the Universal Command Guide:

<http://www.allcommands.com/>

which includes SOLARIS info.

.d.