Subj : Flash-RAM
To   : Tegularius
From : Angus McLeod
Date : Tue Oct 18 2005 10:01:00

  Re: Flash-RAM
  By: Tegularius to Angus McLeod on Tue Oct 18 2005 00:22:00

 >  > Thank god the concept of "drive letters" has vanished from my life,
 >  > leaving only a homogeneous, hierarchical file-system tree in it's wake.
 > 
 > Indeed, I seem to get along without them nicely in Linux; but Linux has ways
 > to make this easy, including shell scripting that's really capable without b
 > ng as verbose as COBOL, and symbolic links, and being able to execute script
 > in numerous languages without calling up the interpreter specifically.  Most
 > of all, there's the '~' to refer to one's home directory.

Indeed.  There is much to recommend the Linux/Unix CLI over the puny 
DOS/Windows CLI.  

 > In Windows, however, I've never been able to work well in a DOS prompt witho
 > drive letters and a RAM disk.  Long directory names and deeply nested 
 > dirs are a real pain to refer to.

Very long paths are a candidate for an environment variable, set in my 
~/.profile:

	export MEWGULL="/www/vhosts/anjo.com/htdocs/rc/aircraft/mewgull"

 > How do you keep your productivity up?  I'm really interested in suggestions.

In Windows?  Don't ask me.  

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