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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!john
- From: john@gu.uwa.edu.au (John West)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: command abbreviation
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 07:32:15 GMT
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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- References: <1992Nov13.190208.17876@cubic.com>
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- 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.
-
- Zilog got it right (LoaD dest,src)
- Motorola got it right (MOVE src,dest)
- Intel got it wrong (MOVe dest,src)
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- You can have the operands either way around, but *please*, at least get the
- name right. strcpy should be src,dest (copy THIS to THAT).
-
- Oh dear. Is this called a religious issue?
-
- John West
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