[G4] How do you delete Previous Systems folder
Jim Asherman
jimash at optonline.net
Thu Apr 10 07:35:36 PDT 2003
On Thursday, April 10, 2003, at 01:59 AM, Crazy Miz B-Miz B's Porch &
Crazed Cowboys wrote:
>
> On Monday, March 24, 2003, at 12:17 PM, Wilkin, Wayne (Mass) wrote:
>
>> Boot into 9. Boy are you guys old school. Your going to boot into 9 for
>> everything you can't trash you'll be doing that for ever. You guys
>> should
>> get more familiar with the Terminal.
>
> Yah....but darling Waynes'world:
>
> Those of us who have had Mac forever and are Unix ignoramuses---well,
> some have a reason...
>
> (By the way, I think you mean "You're..." and "forever.")
>
> I've bought every book I could for trying to learn/understanding
> X/Unix, etc.
>
> AND EACH ONE WARNS TO DO NOTHING rather than work in Terminal until we
> really know what we are doing...because we could do great harm.
>
> And I think Unix is really new and different and strange for us---and
> so we'd be committing computer suicide to randomly follow casually
> given directions...
>
> especially when they sound kinda bratty!
>
> I am without doubt certain that you are handsome, charming, genius-ish,
> and a Unix Wizard.
>
> But I, alas am but a poor citizen of the Old School, and by the way,
> Steely Dan played a damn fine version of that...oh, dear. You may not
> have been alive. Or if you were, then you're a feisty older feller...
>
> Yeah! Whatever!
>
> TERMINAL: here comes Miz B...
>
> Three hours later:
>
> TERMINAL:
>
> Terminal?
>
> Termi-
>
>
>
Unless you have something specific to do and are armed with the
appropriate commands you are wading into the deep end and will drown.
It is nice to have a terminal (CLI Command window) even nicer not to
have to use it.
Jim
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