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On 6/8/2024 9:07 AM, Joel wrote:
> DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
>> On 6/7/2024 6:38 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>>> command line
>>
>> Larry Duh, still livin' in the 70s.
>>
>> Snap out of it.
> 
> 
> Wrong, dude, and you *should* know it, you haven't used PowerShell to
> install anything, etc., just like one uses the Linux terminal?  I
> have, when I was running Windows.  It's actually an *asset* of the
> platform, it shows that if you can tolerate the bloatware, you do have
> components that are as nifty as Unix.


Yeah, I've done a certain amt of stuff with PowerShell, but I much 
prefer a bash shell and *nix utilities.

Recently I was in WSL Ubuntu, downloading compsci course materials from 
CalTech and Stanford universities, ie

$ wget -r https://cs249i.stanford.edu/

FINISHED --2024-06-08 10:28:21--
Total wall clock time: 5.6s
Downloaded: 22 files, 124M in 1.9s (63.9 MB/s)