[mdlug] how would you teach a class?

[Drew]

At 10:33 PM 7/8/09, Aaron Kulkis wrote:

>Teach the basic commands (cd, ls, cat/more/less)...
>and then IMMEDIATELY introduce the pipe mechanism
>before teaching anything else.
>
>Why?
>
>Because once you have someone hooked on the flexibility
>of using command pipelines, they'll never want to go back
>to Windows ;-)

     Pipes are nice, but Windows also has command line capability, including
pipes, and including input /output redirect, for those who know where to look.
I just verified this by executing "dir | more", "dir > 
d:\dir_test.txt", and "type
d:\dir_test.txt".

    (Though I'm not sure about Vista as I've never touched it.)

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  - Drew.