Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

Article View: comp.unix.shell

Article #4502

#4502

From: Vince Scarafino
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 00:00

23 lines
2122 bytes

Christopher Grayce wrote:
> 
> Something interesting to me is that Multics had full
> commands as well as the abbreviations, e.g.
> 
> print_working_directory   <->    pwd
> 
> You could use either.  Funny that now when we can much
> more easily afford the overhead to have both it's not
> done.
> 
> CJG

That's because Multics supported the concept of "adnames," which 
allowed a file to have multiple names associated with it.  The
neat thing about this was that in many instances, you could
type out what you were looking for (using the underscore to
represent a blank between words) and you'd actually find out
there was a command with that name and it answered your question.
Adname support is something I miss.  Soft links in unix have
subtle differences that drive you crazy if you try to use them
for this purpose.

Technical Details

Message-ID: <337B120F.379E@ford.com>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail

References:

<5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <5l3c2f$i1j@pasilla.bbnplanet.com> <337A003F.6A7B@ncofsi.com> <3379A05E.21EB@UK.Sun.COM.PLEASE.REMOVE.THIS.TO.REPLY> <337A149B.15C52A4F@uci.edu>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 1103af,3d362ec564ebdcba
X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public
X-Google-Thread: 10eb3b,3d362ec564ebdcba
X-Google-Attributes: gid10eb3b,public
X-Google-Thread: faa64,3d362ec564ebdcba
X-Google-Attributes: gidfaa64,public
X-Google-Thread: 1012a6,3d362ec564ebdcba
X-Google-Attributes: gid1012a6,public
X-Google-Thread: fa705,3d362ec564ebdcba
X-Google-Attributes: gidfa705,public
X-Google-Thread: 11035d,3d362ec564ebdcba
X-Google-Attributes: gid11035d,public
X-Google-Thread: f4bda,3d362ec564ebdcba
X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public
X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,3d362ec564ebdcba
X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public
From: Vince Scarafino <vscarafi@ford.com>
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/15
Message-ID: <337B120F.379E@ford.com>
X-Deja-AN: 241694950
References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <5l3c2f$i1j@pasilla.bbnplanet.com> <337A003F.6A7B@ncofsi.com> <3379A05E.21EB@UK.Sun.COM.PLEASE.REMOVE.THIS.TO.REPLY> <337A149B.15C52A4F@uci.edu>
Organization: Ford Motor Company
Reply-To: vscarafi@ford.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris

Reply to Parent Message