jcburt@gats486.larc.nasa.gov
Date: 08/06/93


From: jcburt@gats486.larc.nasa.gov
Subject: Re: Emacs 18.59.4 Problem?
Date: 06 Aug 1993 13:19:46 GMT

In article <1993Aug5.174014.14395@utopia.druid.com> ross@utopia.druid.com (Ross Ridge) writes:

>Obviously, you use UNIX, but you're not very familiar with UNIX...

   I'm very familiar with Unix, Mr. Burt. In fact I know much
   more about Unix than you do.

Ummm...care to count years (perhaps decades) of UNIX experience ? care to
count number of *different* versions of UNIX ? care to count numbers of
different platforms? Care to count number of years being an SA ?

>Have you read any of the *other* UNIX newsgroups?

   Not this is a Unix group, but yes.

> If you had, you'd probably notice a very similar trend...

   No, I haven't noticed people posting about their shells being
   broken.

>I guess you laugh when a SunOS, or a AIX, or a SCO, or an Ultrix or
>a (fill in the blank) systems administrator posts about his/her latest
>problems...

   Actually, I did read comp.unix.sys5.r4 to laugh at the postings
   of another particular sysadmin, but we don't get that newsgroup
   here.

> I guess that the inverse also holds...if the shell works, then the
>operating system *must* be good...hmmm since you seem to think that
>the MS-DOS shell works, you must think that MS-DOS is a good
>operating system...

   MS-DOS is better than Linux. I have no problems running GNU Emacs
   under MS-DOS.

And I have no problems running GNU Emacs under Linux using either bash
or tcsh or the default /bin/sh. SO whats your point? I *do* have problems
running GNU Emacs under DOS, but then again, I like doing things that
are not possible under that wonderful O/S MS-DOS

John