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to: Geo.
from: Alan Cairns
date: 2003-02-09 14:14:22
subject: Re: Why IE became popular

From: Alan Cairns 

On 09/02/2003 1:47 PM, in article 3e46ca89$1{at}w3.nls.net, "Geo."
 wrote:

> Really? What functions require the command line? When I messed with it,
> seemed to me the GUI was more complete than any Unix GUI I've seen before.

Things like deleting a user's folders that require root privileges. It can
be done in the GUI, but only with a lot of complicated manoeuvring.

It also has all the old friends like sed and awk.

Alan

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