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From: F1142S30%unika2@germany.CSNET (Juergen Renz)
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Subject: Re: Why not abbreviate DCL symbols?
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Date: Thu, 6-Aug-87 00:19:00 EDT
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In message <62500005@uiucuxe> DJ Heisterberg writes:
>Another good example of the problem with abbreviated symbols is
> 
>        $ del*ete == "DELETE/LOG"
> 
>Then try to delete the symbol delete!  This is a real-life example, too, I saw
>it happen, really!

My solutions are:

       $ delete :==
or
       $ delete == ""
or 
       $ deleee /symbol /global delete    ! Note: only the first 4 characters
                                          !       are significant

I have another problem with abbreviated symbols:

  First define an abbreviation for TPU:
     $ ed*it :== edit/tpu

  Then define a symbol for EDT:
     $ edi :== edit/edt

  The second command fails. So I have to define three symbols:
     $ ed :== edit/tpu
     $ edi :== edit/edt
     $ edit :== edit/tpu

Has anyone got a solution for that?

P.S.:   The definitions for EDT and TPU are only examples.
        I use to define my abbreviations carefully.

Juergen Renz                                        Universitaet Karlsruhe
Falkengarten 7                                      Institut fuer Informatik IV
D-7530 Pforzheim
West-Germany