Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Christopher Grayce
Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 00:00

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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

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From: Christopher Grayce <cgrayce@uci.edu>
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/14
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