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Moving from Linux to Windows

No, not me, you! I just got here, to linux, to quote Mc Donald’s and I’m loving it! However, some of you, in this cruel, cruel world of ours, may be forced to leave your home and use Windows. If this sounds familiar, God knows I’m sympathetic to your plight! Here’s a little something from O’Reilly. Avoiding the usual linking to the word ‘something’ or ‘little’ I’ve decided to just link to the whold damn description! How’s that for gaudiness?

“Microsoft certainly hasn’t forgotten Windows’ roots in the command prompt, either, as it is still an integral part of Windows XP. As explained in the beginning of Chapter 4, many of the programs that come with Windows don’t have corresponding shortcuts in the Start menu, and therefore must be started with some form of the command prompt. Other applications, such as Notepad or Windows Explorer, have command-line parameters , special options that can be specified only if the program is started from the command prompt. And then there are programs, such as Telnet, that are still entirely command-line based.”