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From: pete@wlbr.EATON.COM (Pete Lyall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: More John Dvorak comments
Message-ID: <23064@wlbr.EATON.COM>
Date: 7 Sep 88 00:46:33 GMT
References: <18509@neabbs.UUCP> <24516@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <31930@clyde.ATT.COM> <1185@plx.UUCP> <2684@mibte.UUCP>
Reply-To: pete@wlbr.eaton.com.UUCP (Pete Lyall)
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In article <2684@mibte.UUCP> jnj@mibte.UUCP (Jim Jackson) writes:
-- 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).
-- 
-	Be careful of which command names you use.  In the previous case
-you would lose the use of the UN*X 'dir' command.
-
-					Jim Jackson
-					Michigan Bell
-				

Eh? Someone slip a 'dir' command into Unix while I wasn't looking, or
did your system administrator inadvertantly set up an alias between
'dir' and some flavor of 'ls'?

Pete

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