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From: sullivan@marge.math.binghamton.edu (fred sullivan)
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Subject: Re: More John Dvorak comments
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Date: 9 Sep 88 02:19:27 GMT
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In article <3836@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
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>equivalents such as "show quota", "show default" and "set default".  I
>rather like saying "ls" instead of  "dir" because it's 67% less
>typing :-) and I can say "ls" on all systems I use if I define the

That 33% less typing, Rahul.  Personally, I think that all this argument
about command names is a lot of nonsense.  As people have pointed out,
commands can always be renamed (in Unix).

Unix is wonderful because 
1) it has io redirection
2) it has pipelines -- real pipelines, not fake pipelines like MSDOS
3) it has an unmatched set of utilities -- from the mundane pr and fmt
	to the exotic awk, lex and yacc
4) there is an AMAZING amount of good, free software available -- 
	the unfortunate thing is that a lot of it won't run on toy
	machines (e.g. GNU Emacs, the Gnu C Compiler, and X-Windows)
5) machines with completely different architectures made by different
	vendors talk to each other -- conveniently -- using tcp/ip,
	uucp, nfs (of course these things are beginning to show up
	elsewhere)

Unix also has its problems, but don't try to sell me anything else.
I only use an MSDOS machine because someone offered to buy me one if
I would write some software for them (if I could make THAT decision
again...)

Fred Sullivan				SUNY at Binghamton
Dept. Math. Sciences			Binghamton, NY 13903
					sullivan@marge.math.binghamton.edu
First you make a roux!