<html><head></head><body><p dir="ltr">speck? thurns?</p>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On May 14, 2015 6:12:22 PM EDT, jep200404@columbus.rr.com wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On Thu, 14 May 2015 14:45:33 -0400, Steve VanSlyck
<s.vanslyck@postpro.net> wrote:<br /><br /><blockquote
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solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> You're willing to teach me but
would prefer, <br /> obviously, that I teach myself. <br /> Always
better that way.<br /></blockquote><br />Good.<br /><br />You keep
bumping into needs for the classic tools. <br /><br />For a good
tutorial about how to use the classic tools, <br />read "The UNIX
Programming Environment" by Kernighan and Pike.<br />For a good
explanation of the philosophy behind Unix, <br />which is the
philosophy behind Linux, read the wikipedia <br />article on "Unix
philosophy" and Mike Gancarz' <br />"The UNIX Philosophy".<br /><br
/>For more particular stuff, search the web for whatever tool you <br
/>want to use and "tutorial". Try several. Quickly dispatch the <br
/>mediocre or confusing ones. If something does not make sense,
<br />quickly move on to a different tutorial. Sometimes real work <br />is involved.<br /><br />For deeper understanding, find and read the manual.<br /><br />Also, hang out with folks who use the classic tools. <br />The weekly Python dojos are one such place. See <a href="http://cohpy.org">cohpy.org</a>.<br />Mornings at Grandview Stauf's are good too.<br />Coffee, doughnuts, speck, and anything from Thurn's are <br />always welcome.<br /><hr /><br />colug-432 mailing list<br />colug-432@colug.net<br /><a href="http://lists.colug.net/mailman/listinfo/colug-432">http://lists.colug.net/mailman/listinfo/colug-432</a><br /></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>