devolopin a mew lang........ 1753

On Thursday 29 June 2006 20:10, Chris F.A. Johnson stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...:

Chris, I suppose you know this, but the name "disk operating system" was coined back at the time because DOS was indeed not a real eoperating systeme, but a software layer that served as an application starter and as a tool for manipulating floppy disks - there were no hard disks in the earliest PC's. Ergo, "disk operating system" doesn't have anything to do with the operating system being installed on the disk, but just with the designated purpose of that system.

However, if I read the original poster's question right, I believe that he may be under the impression that... - Either GNU-Linux is a GUI-only system - an idea which would be quite impossible to conceive for anyone ever having installed GNU-Linux at least once; or - GNU-Linux runs on top of MS-DOS.

The original poster seems to inquire about a commandline system that allows one to interact with the system in the same way DOS does, i.e. by commands and scripts that manipulate files and memory contents.

In other words - and again: if I read the OP correctly - what he wants and needs is to get acquainted withbash- or another shell for that matter.

-- With kind regards,

*Aragorn* (Registered GNU-Linux user #223157)