Choice of command names

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2 total messages Started by castor fu Mon, 26 Jun 1989 16:13

#141

Author: castor fu
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1989 16:13

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One thing which I was wondering about is whether it's a good idea
to reserve the keywords 'help' and 'type' for bash.  It seems
like the novice user might be surprised if they got a lot
of stuff about the shell when they type 'help' and that this keyword
should be reserved for a more generic help command.  Maybe
bashhelp ?

Similarly 'type' will no doubt confuse people coming from a VMS or
MS-DOS environment.  'typeof' is my suggestion for a replacement for type.

Can anyone else think of things that should be modified before 
the interface is 'frozen'?

		-Castor Fu
		foo@portia.stanford.edu

Choice of command names

#143

Author: Brian Fox
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1989 20:07

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   Date: 26 Jun 89 16:13:58 GMT
   From: agate!shelby!portia!foo@ucbvax.berkeley.edu  (castor fu)
   Organization: Stanford University
   Sender: bug-bash-request@prep.ai.mit.edu

   One thing which I was wondering about is whether it's a good idea
   to reserve the keywords 'help' and 'type' for bash.  It seems

Did you notice the "enable" command?

Brian

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