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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!zdc!super.zippo.com!newshub.csu.net!csulb.edu!drivel.ics.uci.edu!news.service.uci.edu!usenet From: Christopher Grayce <cgrayce@uci.edu> 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 Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list? Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 12:38:03 -0700 Organization: UCI Lines: 10 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <337A149B.15C52A4F@uci.edu> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: flattop.ps.uci.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.30 i586) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:44905 comp.os.linux.misc:175164 comp.os.linux.x:61503 alt.os.linux:21108 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3194 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40854 gnu.misc.discuss:31227 comp.unix.solaris:106425 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