command line vs gui

Agrouf · 05-18-2006, 09:56 AM

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Originally Posted by resnostyle

ok thanks for all your help. looking at the responses i have a more aimed question. what do you all generally encounter in the job place?

As a programmer working mainly on AIX, I use vi almost all the time. Some of my colleagues use ultraEdit on windows though, but they have to FTP their stuff, whereas vi runs on the server side.

resnostyle · 05-18-2006, 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Agrouf

As a programmer working mainly on AIX, I use vi almost all the time. Some of my colleagues use ultraEdit on windows though, but they have to FTP their stuff, whereas vi runs on the server side.

ok.. that sounds good but i dont what all the abreviaitions mean...

Agrouf · 05-18-2006, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by resnostyle

ok.. that sounds good but i dont what all the abreviaitions mean...

AIX is an operating system (a unix one from IBM).
Windows is a parody of an operating system (a very strange thing from Microsoft having some of the functionalities of an operating system).
UltraEdit is a text editor with a GUI.
vi is a text editor running on the console with no GUI.
FTP is a File Transfer Protocol.

chrism01 · 05-19-2006, 12:58 AM

I've worked on Linux, Solaris, HP-UX and always used vi/vim. You'd be surprised how easy it is these days, especially as a lot of the time it's from a PC wkstn onto a server, so I get to use the mouse for copy/paste.

resnostyle · 05-19-2006, 07:24 AM

what os do most employers use?

AIX
Solaris
HP-UX

does that pretty much top the list?