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From: J.O.....@f1.n221.z2.fidonet.fi (J.O. Aho)
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Subject: Re: while loop taking input from file via iconv
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2021 09:17:09 +0200
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by: J.O. Aho - Sat, 14 Aug 2021 07:17 UTC

On 14/08/2021 00.07, Mike Easter wrote:
> J.O. Aho wrote:
>> there are quite many Linux users who never used a terminal.
>
> Many linux users who are *almost* exclusively graphical often find
> support in the form of a command someone gives them which they then
> paste into the terminal, because communicating a solution by a problem
> solver is very frequently much easier by way of a command even if there
> is a graphical route to the same solution.

You are assuming that people always has problem with their Linux
installation, I do personally know people who never used the terminal at
all. Linux has evolved quite a lot since the 1990's.

//Aho

Nothing ever becomes real until it is experienced. -- John Keats

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