Re: Go, software activation, go!

Larry Drews wrote:

But we are talking about tar. Is this not the utility that unpacks a
distribution file? Isn't this something that a non-programmer would
have to use to install an application?

Maybe. It would probably be called by a batch file or through a nice
GUI if that was the case.

At work we're actually using tar in a product, not for installing the
product, but for reading diskettes produced on archaic unix systems
(yes, unix, not linux). It is used mainly by service technicians and
they have no problem double-clicking the file
'RunMeToReadTheUnixDiskette.bat' in Explorer.

And I bet there are actual "programmers" out there that hardly ever
use a command line tool. I know that I use the command line maybe 2
times a year.

Different kind of work, different needs. Also depends on what you're
used to. I find it is mostly faster to open a command window (actually
it's mostly already open) and type

dir MyFile* /s

than using the 'Search...' function in Explorer to find a file on my
hard disk (but since installing Copernic Desktop Search I'm using the
command window less for this purpose).

It is also much faster when you need to create many new directories:

cd TargetDir
md NewDir1
md NewDir2
...
md NewDirN

When you learn to use the 'previous commands' stack, and copy and paste
from ordinary windows into the command window it gets even more
efficient.

OK, I started with computers pre-DOS, so I do have most of the commands
ready at my fingertips...
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