Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!hpda!hpcupt1!hpsal2!morrell From: morrell@hpsal2.HP.COM (Michael Morrell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: More categories for aliases (was Re: something or other) Message-ID: <14660001@hpsal2.HP.COM> Date: 9 Jun 88 21:23:51 GMT References: <1827@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> Organization: HP System Architecture Lab, Cupertino Lines: 16 / hpsal2:comp.unix.questions / rml@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Bob Lenk) / 5:37 pm Jun 6, 1988 / > % rm nosuch > rm: nosuch nonexistent > > In 4.2/4.3BSD, at least, there is a line like > > if (!isatty(0)) fflag = 1; Just another BSD/SysV difference, which explains the differing opinions (apparently the hyphen in "non-existent" is another): % rm nosuch rm: nosuch non-existent ---------- Of course, according to my Webster's 9th Collegiate, "nonexistent" is not hyphenated. so, in this case, BSD is correct.