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Article #25447Re: naming of x programs
From: mayer
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1987 20:07
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1987 20:07
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>But not everybody runs BSD. Very true. I'll add to that, not everyone is root on all the machines they use, so you may just end up working on some machine where all the x programs have been lumped togher under /usr/bin. It doesn't bother me to type one extra character 'x' before the command, especially since I use a menu under uwm to select my frequently used programs (xterm-e, gnuemacs, etc.) And what happens when I decide that I don't like X and I want to try out it's incompatible successor, Y? I would rather be able to decide to run xemacs, or yemacs, rather than having to muck with the order that /usr/bin/X and /usr/bin/Y occur in $PATH, or yaweh-forbid, type out the full path name. I think we should get back to writing x-based programs rather than arguing about what we're gonna call them. -- Niels.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!hplabs!hplabsc!mayer From: mayer@hplabsc.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: naming of x programs Message-ID: <1624@hplabsc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 18-Apr-87 15:07:27 EST Article-I.D.: hplabsc.1624 Posted: Sat Apr 18 15:07:27 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Apr-87 05:44:59 EST References: <8704171915.AA28481@MENELAUS.MIT.EDU> <1623@hplabsc.UUCP> <1126@cartan.Berkeley.EDU> <27115@rochester.ARPA> Reply-To: mayer@hplabsc.UUCP (Niels Mayer) Distribution: world Organization: Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 21