CompuServe Messages

Marc, I beg to differ. As a person who has no idea what MVS, CMS, TSO/ISPF are, I was introduced to UNIX on an AT&T 7300 micro and I am still awed by the power and complexities of it. I find the windowing shell program clumsy in places but overall decently implemented. Then with 300+ utility files out there, allowing me to do whatever I want, whenever I have a problem that can't be handled through the shell I can access UNIX directly in another window. I am by no means evenm close to knowing what all of the commands under UNIX are, but when I need to do something I have online help and huge manuals to help me find what I need. And there is invariably a solution at my disposal that was already written by somebody else who needed to do a similar thing. How many corporate groups of users do you know that don't have one or more 'guru's' that are there for other folks' questions regarding the computers they are using. With a pleasant shell, UNIX can be friendly and I have never seen a more powerful OS. -John