Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!pacbell.com!ames!haven!mimsy!yogurt From: yogurt@mimsy.umd.edu (Rob Crittenden) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: Where is the long awaited MS DOS 5.0 ? Message-ID: <28851@mimsy.umd.edu> Date: 2 Jan 91 16:03:22 GMT References: <965@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 37 In article <965@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> you write: >}In article <13523@milton.u.washington.edu> dittrich@milton.u.washington.edu (D ave Dittrich) writes: >}DOS tends to use the first few letters of a command, or the whole word if >}it's short enough. Unix tends to pick letters out of the word. Yes, there >}are some cases where this isn't true ... but look at the following. These >}are three of the most commonly-used commands. >} >}FUNCTION DOS UNIX >}directory/list dir ls >}copy copy cp >}erase/remove/delete erase/del rm > >Sorry, but that argument dosn't hold any water. Ever heard of alias? Under >UNIX, you can alias ls to dir. And directory, files and any other command you >may want for that matter. Under DOS, you have to write a batch file or, if >the command is outside the command.com, rename the program. > Sorry to be picky, but aliasing isn't part of Unix, it's part of csh. Arguing which mneumonic names are better than another will get you nowhere, and if you guys want to continue bickering about something that will never be resolved, could you move it somewhere else, alt.flame? As for man pages, supposedly the beta-testers of 5.0 say that it will have a moderate help built-in. Anyway, if DOS did their man pages like unix, I don't think I'd want to give up 10+ meg (yes, they take up that much space) just for help! -- +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | yogurt@cs.umd.edu Robert Comp Sci Dept, U of Md | | uunet!cs!yogurt Crittenden College Park, MD 20742 | +------------------- so much beer, so little time -----------------------+