Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!plx!walt
From: walt@plx.UUCP (Walt Novinger )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: More John Dvorak comments
Message-ID: <1185@plx.UUCP>
Date: 30 Aug 88 20:27:42 GMT
References: <18509@neabbs.UUCP> <24516@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <31930@clyde.ATT.COM> <6414@chinet.UUCP> <9837@bellcore.bellcore.com> <1028@mtund.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: walt@plx.UUCP (Walt Novinger (sales))
Organization: Plexus Computers; San Jose, CA
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In article <1028@mtund.ATT.COM> smc@mtund.UUCP (Steven Casagrande) writes:
>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!) 

Why write script files? Seems to me that most *IX commands can be
mapped nearly 1:1 with DOS (e.g. ls:dir, cp:copy). Simply create a 
link to perform the mapping. To link a dir command to ls, for instance,
simply become su and give the command "ln /usr/bin/ls /usr/bin/dir".
From then on, typing "dir *" will list the current directory (sorted,
even!),. the advantage of this approach is that no extra disk space
is used for a script (though I *think* one inode may be used).

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