Re: PATH, HOME, and ~

>> If anyone has any comments or suggestions for good ways to
>> learn about this stuff, please post a followup in this thread.
>
> -- Or a URL, or a bibliographical reference, or something --
> yes, pretty please! With sugar on it. I'm way too old to go
> take a freshman course in CS, and I wanna primer! One with
> *theory* in it! <he howled, gazing at the moon>.


There are tons of web pages about learning the basics of Unix 
and I recently looked around for some good ones to include in 
this section of my Power Pine page:

  Using a Shell Script to Launch Pine
  <http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/pine/pc/#script>

I recommend that you look at that section and follow the links 
that I'm collecting there. At this point I don't know of one 
really good one for you Beartooth, but if I do find one, I'll 
let you know. And hopefully someone else will post links to a 
good starting point "with *theory* in it"!

A possibility is one of these books: "The Unix Philosophy" or 
"Linux and the Unix Philosophy", which are both by Mike Gancarz. 
I bought the first one in 1994 when it was published and liked 
it. I just this moment discovered the second one, which was 
published in 2002. Since you have a philosophical bent 
Beartooth, maybe you should check out one or both of these books!

    --Nancy