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- From: hammond@lafite.bellcore.com (Rich A. Hammond)
- Date: Tue, 7 Oct 86 08:13:22 edt
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- As long as we're proposing case-insensitive filenames, we should
- fix the real user interface problem and have vowel-insensitive
- filenames. We've had many problems with users who typed
- "move" to rename a file, or once they had learned mv, couldn't
- understand why "ct" didn't cat. And of course, they are forever
- trying to chdir to /user. Clearly, vowel-insensitive filenames
- i.e. move == mv, usr == user, ld == load, name == nm, ...
- would eliminate many of the complaints about UNIX's user interface.
-
- Rich Hammond Bell Communications Research hammond@bellcore.com
-
- [ Ok, this is different, but I seem to recall the issue of command
- names being beat to death in other fora, perhaps including a CACM paper.
- If someone can recall the details, please post.
-
- Also, I assume this wasn't really meant as input to P1003 (actually
- P1003.2, since it's a shell interface issue), because that group is
- trying to standardize what's there, not invent new things.
-
- For that matter, it couldn't have been a *gasp* joke, could it?
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- Volume-Number: Volume 7, Number 35
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