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   Lawrence D'Oliveiro stated in post iia33b$cte$3@lust.ihug.co.nz on 2/1/11   
   3:56 PM:   
      
   > In message , Snit wrote:   
   >   
   >> Lawrence D'Oliveiro stated in post ii86gs$9f5$2@lust.ihug.co.nz on 1/31/11   
   >> 10:42 PM:   
   >>   
   >>> In message , Snit wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro stated in post ii7t2o$491$1@lust.ihug.co.nz on   
   >>>> 1/31/11 8:01 PM:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>     Next, back up the documents in the Documents folder ... for each   
   >>>>>     user. If you©öve saved important files in some other location, be   
   >>>>>     sure to back up those, too.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> What other locations, and how would you be sure to remember?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Aren't you one of the ones who expects people to remember a bunch of   
   >>>> arcane command line tools?   
   >>>   
   >>> Relevance being?   
   >>   
   >> Really?  Seriously, are you not understanding?   
   >   
   > That seems to be your standard response when things get over your head, I   
   > notice.   
      
   No, I am serious... I am just shocked that you did not get what I was   
   saying.  My apologies.  In any case, since it is clear now you did not get   
   it: you are talking about how you find it hard to believe people would   
   remember where they have put their files (in the rare cases they put them   
   outside of their user folder) but, if I am correct, have no problem thinking   
   people would figure out and remember a whole slew of arcane command line   
   instructions which are, essentially, irrelevant to modern home computing.   
      
   Just today you posted this comment line instruction:   
      
       ldd /usr/bin/perl   
      
   Which, of course, assumes you know where files are.  And yesterday:   
      
       ls -l $(which perl)   
       ls -l $(which sed)   
      
   I do hope you are not one of the ones who assumes general users should use   
   such commands.  Are you?  If not, then there is no real contradiction in   
   your comments and my insinuation stands corrected.   
      
      
      
      
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