RE: OT - Shutting down an RS/6000 ?

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Hans Boldt
>
> Joe: Remember, there are different classes of users, each with
> different needs, skills, and abilities. Does the average OS/400
> end-user really care how to look up and prompt an OS/400 command? Do
> you ever even really want to offer the average end-user an OS/400
> command prompt? No end-user in *any* operating system should ever
> have to deal with any command line shell, period. And so the issue
> of *user*-friendliness is, to me at least, moot.

We were talking about how easy it is to find out what a command does, and
what command to use to do something.  And while I guess you have no contact
with end users who use command prompting as part of their production
environment, that's not the point.  Whether it's a user or a programmer has
nothing to do with it, because in either case OS/400 ease of use beats Unix
hands down.  No discussion, no argument, no quibble.  This isn't one of
those gray areas where even a narrow, biased interpretation of the question
can somehow show Unix in a better light.  Unix commands are named
non-intuitively, the parameters are inconsistent and error prone, and there
is no prompting.


> There's a different philosophy to Posix commands. Posix commands
> tend to be more flexible in that many are designed as filters.

Posix is stream oriented, so the commands better be.  But since this, and
the rest of your discussion, has nothing to do with your original statement
that Unix commands are as easy to figure out as OS/400 commands, it's really
a different discussion.  But thanks for an enlightening sidetrack.

Joe