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From: kbibb@best.com (Ken Bibb)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things
Date: 19 Nov 1996 21:35:03 -0800
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In <56l8sj$6d2@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> shoppa@alph02.triumf.ca (Tim Shoppa) writes:

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>Note that the above utility programs can be called through Keyboard
>monitor commands, which can be abbreviated to 1 or 2 characters
>in many cases.  The concept of a "keyboard monitor" with
>abbreviable commands is completely foreign to Unix - but this
>will hardly matter after January 17, 2038!

Isn't analogous to the unix idea of a shell where you can abbreviate
the commands?

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