Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!egs
From: egs@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Schnoebelen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: More John Dvorak comments
Summary: Links don't always work on unix
Message-ID: <5373@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 1 Sep 88 02:50:32 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> <1185@plx.UUCP>
Reply-To: u-word!egs@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Eric Schnoebelen)
Organization: John W. Bridges & Associates, Inc., Lewisville, Tx.
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In article <1185@plx.UUCP> walt@plx.UUCP (Walt Novinger (sales)) writes:
.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).

	Fair warning to all on linking commands to different names under
UNIX(TM).  This may well be possible for 'ls', but for cp, it figures
out what to do based upon how it was called, eg. as cp, mv or ln.  If it
wasn't called with one of those names, it returns a 'I don't know what
to do' sort of message.

	Links only eat up a directory entry ( assuming they are on the
same file system ), not an inode.


	Cheers!

		Eric Schnoebelen
		John W. Bridges & Associates, Inc.
		Lewisville, Tx
		u-word!egs@killer.dallas.tx.us
 
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