Re: new pc finally arrived and have to make decisions-help

[Russ Urquhart russurquhart1@xxxxxxxx]

On Dec 20, 2005, at 11:31 PM, Harry Binswanger wrote:
> > One of the big advantantages of OS X, and the second reason i left
> > windows behind, was this Unix environment.
> That's what motivated me to try the Mac. But it seemed to me, in my
> perhaps ignorance, that UNIX doesn't play the same role in the Mac
> as DOS did in Win9x. For instance, the UNIX directory structure
> didn't seem to relate in any easy way to the structure I saw in
> normal Mac usage.
The Unix directory structure does take some getting used to, and you
are correct, its not as straight foward, with regard to how/where
applications are stored as DOS. If you use Unix you kind of HAVE to
know where certain things are stored. OS X follows this convention
under the covers, and you're right that isn't readily apparent from
looking at the OS X gui.
Sorry it didn't work for you. Hope you found something that works for
you!

Russ