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- From: azog@spatula.rent.com (Billy D'Augustine)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: command abbreviation
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.224314.2552@spatula.rent.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 22:43:14 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.190208.17876@cubic.com>
- Organization: A kitchen utensil somewhere in central New Jersey
- Lines: 27
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- In article <1992Nov13.190208.17876@cubic.com> hees@cubic.com (Phil Hees) writes:
- >
- >I always use the (dest [,dest], src [,src]) ordering for my own function
- >calls, and really get locked into this mindset, to the point that I often
- >find myself checking the man page to reassure myself that I am using the
- >correct order for the cp (Unix) or copy (VMS, DOS) commands.
- >
-
- And yet another reason why I love VMS. Dunno of anyone pointed this out
- yet, but if you give an incomplete command, DCL will prompt you for the
- rest of the info. For instance:
-
- $ copy
- From: foo.bar
- To: extreme_fooness.bar
-
- Or:
- $ copy foo.bar
- To:
-
- (of course, since I have the memory retention of a sieve, I may have the
- prompts wrong, but you get the idea)
-
- --
- Billy D'Augustine azog@spatula.rent.com
-
- No lord shall stand before myself.
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