Greetings and salutaions..

[John Martinez]

On Feb 23, 2004, at 9:37 AM, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote:

> ... I prefer the command-line for many tasks, since it's often faster. 
> Or I am
> faster via command-line, anyway, since I'm a very good typist. =)

And you don't have to be a very good typist to be good at it, either. ;)

Seriously, the water's fine, come on in. I've been around this UNIX 
thing for quite a while and have enjoyed most minutes of it. I took my 
formative years not as frustration, but as a "learning" experience. It 
helped, too, that I had a really anal SOB for a teacher when I first 
started learning. We spent weeks doing nothing but Regular Expressions 
in vi and sed. Nothing regular about them!

I didn't have the "pleasure" of learning computers on a Windows system, 
so UNIX (and Macs) seems more natural to me than anything coming out of 
Redmond. Windows, now *that's* frustrating!

-john