From: tomster@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Thomas Richard Dibble)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy
Subject: Re: More Defense of CLI
Date: 3 Oct 92 22:26:36
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609-2280
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In-reply-to: mmunson@animal.es.com's message of Fri, 2 Oct 1992 00:10:54 GMT

In article <1992Oct2.001054.3773@javelin.sim.es.com> mmunson@animal.es.com (Mark Munson) writes:

   In article <6031.2ac1d1f3@hayes.com> tomster@banzai.WPI.EDU (Thomas Richard Dibble)
   writes: 

   >  > Well, the word "syntaxt" isn't in my dictionary.  Presumeably you
   >  > mean syntax.  Yet another CLI user who believes that typing errors
   >  > are not a problem but can't spell.  

   >First, that was not a typo.  That was a spelling error.  It says nothing about
   >the difficulty of typing in a word just as I think it is spelled.


   What a classic response; "It wasn't a typo, I'm just uneducated."
Excuse me if I don't use the word 'syntax' enough (especially not written)
to care how it is spelled.

   [Ed. note:  I needed a good laugh today, and this one was it.]

You must have a sad life if that was the most humor you got out of your
day  :->


   > Notice that, as far as I've seen, I have'nt made *one* error in a word
					 ^^^^^^^
   >of three letters or less.  Most CLI commands are between three and five letters
   >long.  Longer commands, when misspelled, have less of a chance of causing
   >destruction because the computer will not interpret it as anything.


   I hope your understanding of DOS is better than that of the English language.
   The real intersting part here is that in the same sentance that you tell us
   how infrequently you misspell short commands, you make mistakes with words
   of lengths between three and four letters in length.

   Or did you really mean say "have-Unt."

   [MGM]

When I am typing this I am typing across a 2400-baud modem and into an over-
taxed server.  Most times I end up typeing a few lines and then waiting for it
to show on my screen.  As a result ... well, you can see the results.  Such
is usually recognized in the newsgroups I frequent.

But, since you feel so grand about finding a typo in my message, how is it
that you spell 'interesting'?  'sentence'?   BTW, 'haven't' is not between
three and four letters in length.

   P.S.  Tomster, try using a color Mac for a few days.  Use both like we've all
   had to do.  Then maybe you won't be so polarized against the Mac interface and
   enamored with MSDOS.

Well, I have.  I'm not polarized against the interface, or if I am I just plain
don't know it.  I just don't think the interface is worth the hardware you
*have* to buy from Apple.  Note that I have not spoken up against the interface
much beyond that.  Yes, I *have* spoken *for* the CLI-style interface as found
in DOS, but that is not quite the same thing, now is it?

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