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Subject: Re: expert-friendly: are long names a wa - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 7-Dec-83 23:46:29 EST
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uokvax!andree    Dec  6 08:35:00 1983

No, long names are not forcing people to use aliases, especially
if (as previously suggested) the system provides abbreviations.
Hence, you might have `List_current_directory' as a `full' name
for something, and `lc' as the system-supplied abbreviation. No
aliases required, and you have a command that is as short and terse
as Unix.

As for associating short nonsense commands with actions, I agree
that there is no problem - as long as you use 1 system. If you
regularly use two or more systems, each of which has a seperate
set of nonsense commands, you very quickly go gibbering (or at
least I do. I quit using vi because of such considerations).

	<mike