Re: Re: whoami explanation

Daniel Brown wrote: > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:27, PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca> wrote: > >> What is not clear to me is why would I need to use a shell? What kind of >> situations call for it's use? >> > > On what kind of programming did you spend those years? > Not really programming, more like overseeing the programming of others (as a client) and trying to fix their awful mistakes about which I learned from lists on the Net. I tinkered with some basic stuff and looked into machine code back around `82... never very serious... Now I'm trying to modify my daughter's ptahhotep.com to use MySql. It's a learning experience. My real profession if director and director of photography in motion pictures and tv. :-D I appreciate the help I'm getting here and the fact that I am tolerated here (maybe just)... -- Phil Jourdan --- pj@ptahhotep.com http://www.ptahhotep.com http://www.chiccantine.com