Re^3: Beginer's help

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Re^4: Beginer's help by CountZero (Bishop) on Feb 16, 2014 at 20:49 UTC
No, not OK. That answer is not helping the poster at all. It is clear he (or she) has little knowledge of CLI and suggesting he'd change the prompt is going to solve his problem is cruel and misleading. CountZero A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James My blog: Imperial Deltronics	[reply]
Re^5: Beginer's help by Anonymous Monk on Feb 16, 2014 at 23:41 UTC
No, not OK. That answer is not helping the poster at all. It is clear he (or she) has little knowledge of CLI and suggesting he'd change the prompt is going to solve his problem is cruel and misleading. Hmm, four ~~responses~~ answers talking about pwd/cwd .... What about the CLI tutorial link in bold, is that helpful?	[reply]
Re^6: Beginer's help by CountZero (Bishop) on Feb 18, 2014 at 19:21 UTC
Some of those links are more helpful, but why hiding the good parts after a bad reply? CountZero A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James My blog: Imperial Deltronics	[reply]