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From: emmo@moncam.co.uk (Dave Emmerson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: OS/2 vs. Unix
Summary: Ain't necessarily so..
Keywords: Invitation for opinions/flames...
Message-ID: <321@marvin.moncam.co.uk>
Date: 20 Dec 89 19:59:07 GMT
References: <260@ndla.UUCP> <487@lectroid.sw.stratus.com>
Organization: Monotype ADG, Cambridge, UK
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In article <487@lectroid.sw.stratus.com>, jmann@bigbootay (Jim Mann) writes:
> [deleted]
> problems.)  For example, to display a file under DOS, I use
> 'type' or the near-universal bit of freeware 'd'. That's lots
> easier to remember than 'cat.'

Unless you've got DOS 4.x, you won't have seen the **IX steal, 'alias'
If you have trouble remembering any unix command, you can use  e.g.:

alias type cat

in your .login file, just like having a cat.bat file which says

type %1

both are flexible enough to be MADE friendly to any individual user, if 
you know how.
(I don't have a clue what you do on a mac, and I don't want to be enlightened
in this newsgroup, thanks.)

Dave E.