Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Jim Reid
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 00:00

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badvoc@sylph.u-net.com (Badvoc) writes:

> Jonathan Bodarky <jbodarky@ncofsi.com> writes:
> 
> >    Relax, everyone.  What if someone pronounces "su" as "soo", "vi" and
> >"vye" ?  Personally, I pronounce say "remove" when I am referring to
> >"rm" and "copy" when I refer to "cp".
> 
> I though everyone pronounced "vi" as "vye" and "cp" as "copy".

Only the people who don't really know what they are doing. And DOS
users. (Same thing I suppose.) To quote from the vi manual: "vi -
pronounced vee-eye".

It may be superficial, but one way of seperating the wheat from the
chaff when it comes to assessing someone's UNIX skills is how they
pronounce the name of that editor. If they've never even read the vi
manual, then the obvious conclusions can be drawn.

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From: Jim Reid <jim@pc37.mpn.cp.philips.com>
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/06/16
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