Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!mtune!mtund!smc
From: smc@mtund.ATT.COM (Steven Casagrande)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: More John Dvorak comments
Message-ID: <1028@mtund.ATT.COM>
Date: 29 Aug 88 19:38:29 GMT
References: <18509@neabbs.UUCP> <24516@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <31930@clyde.ATT.COM> <6414@chinet.UUCP> <9837@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Reply-To: smc@mtund.UUCP (Steven Casagrande)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Lincroft, NJ
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In article <9837@bellcore.bellcore.com> tr@wind.UUCP (tom reingold) writes:
>Ward says that he likes Unix but prefers the command names of DOS
>because they are less cryptic.
>

Who cares if the Unix commands are cryptic?  It is relatively easy
to write script files to "change" the name of ls, cp, rm, etc.

(Change the name of UNIX commands?  GASP!) 

This is useful because many people work on both PC's and UNIX machines,
and it's easy to forget where you are and type DIR instead of LS.
If you have some command files on  BOTH machines to allow 
LS to work in MS-DOS, or DIR to work on UNIX, then you can work fast
even if you made a mistake.

Of course, a new user may not understand how to create script files.... :-)
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