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- From: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
- Subject: Re: What's in a name?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.092410.6327@ericsson.se>
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- Reply-To: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
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- References: <1992Jul27.224350.511@morrow.stanford.edu>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 09:24:10 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul27.224350.511@morrow.stanford.edu>, paulf@w6yx.Stanford.EDU (Paul Flaherty) writes:
- |>
- |> Well, my Reed - Solomon error correcting coder is now out of beta, and the
- |> only remaining issue is:
- |>
- |> What to call it?
- |>
- |> I had originally proposed "rs", in keeping with Unix tradition of short,
- |> clipped names. Critics have replied that this is too short, and that
- |> something like "ecc-encode" and "ecc-decode", though that seems to be
- |> pretty long and awkward. As an interim, I'm using "rscode" with flags
- |> to indicate the desired operation.
-
- I certainly prefer rs to the alternatives but unfortunately that has an
- unpleasant association with a biproduct of a small rodent, my first
- thought was resol. However I agree with the previous respondentant,
- call it what you like.
-
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- Michael Salmon
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