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Re: notes, 9/29
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dryfoo@MIT.EDU)
Thu Oct 1 15:20:55 1998
From: <dryfoo@MIT.EDU>
To: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Sep 1998 19:25:08 EDT."
<9809300320.AA26188@MIT.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 15:20:49 EDT
} There was a question of whether we are publicizing the use of delete over rm
} enough. Our sense is that we may need to publicize this more because more
} students are coming in "ready to use Unix" and are not as aware of the
} differences.
I haven't been seeing students "ready to use Unix" as much as being
familiar with MS-DOS/Windows whatever and thinking they know Unix
because it looks sorta like what they already know.
The Working on Athena minicourse, which is a pretty thorough intro to
Unix, emphasizes the workings of the delete command pretty well.
Unfortunately, only about 1/4 of the frosh are seeing it at the start of
the year. (We are changing things to deal with that, details not
apropos right here.)
In short, 1) don't over-estimate how many students actually know unix,
and B) a simple poster or flyer in in the clusters might help.
- G
