Re: [Groff] "Confessions of a UNIX Junkie".

[Nick Stoughton]

And in a similar vein, there's the eight levels of Unix knowledge:
http://www.komputado.com/haha/unixguru.htm, of which the most advanced is:

Wizard

   - Fixes bugs by patching the binaries.
   - Writes his own troff macro packages.
   - Writes device drivers with *cat>*.
   - Can answer any question before you ask.


On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Clarke Echols <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 06/10/2012 06:16 PM, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> "By day, I struggled with getting dot leaders into adjusted text with
>> troff..." -- 
>> http://article.olduse.net/address@hidden<http://article.olduse.net/address@hidden>
>>
>> Cheers, Ralph.
>>
>>
>>
> That brings back memories, though it's a bit before my time.  My first
> encounters with Usenet News was about 1985, as I recall.  I don't use
> 'dd' and 'tr', but 'find' is a regular, along with that new marvelous
> Linuxism: 'locate -i'.
>
> And oh the ecstasy of 'firefox <URL> from a terminal window instead of
> having to open a browser window, double-click on the address bar, then
> type in a URL.
>
> Linux users who don't run terminal windows are missing the boat.
>
> And 'vim' -- even better than 'vi' which I started using in 1984!  And
> it's still my editor of choice.  And building a website from components
> with a simple shell script -- who needs a Content Management System that
> gives you 181 files for a single page (WordPress does that all the time,
> including 8 CSS files!) when I can do the same with an HTML file, a CSS
> file, and two image files to give it artistic appeal.
>
> All done from the Bash command line.
>
> 'Tis true.  Microsoft software is the crabgrass on the lawn of life.
>
> Clarke
>
>