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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!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!nntp.uio.no!news.apfel.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!news.ruhr-uni-bochum.de!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup <dak@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list? Date: 15 May 1997 16:39:47 +0200 Organization: Institut fuer Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany Lines: 33 Message-ID: <m267wkvlxo.fsf@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> 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> <337A149B.15C52A4F@uci.edu> <337B120F.379E@ford.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: maloche.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.93) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: vscarafi@ford.com X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.33 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:44989 comp.os.linux.misc:175406 comp.os.linux.x:61614 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3241 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40948 gnu.misc.discuss:31279 comp.unix.solaris:106579 Vince Scarafino <vscarafi@ford.com> writes: > Christopher Grayce wrote: > > > > 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 > > That's because Multics supported the concept of "adnames," which > allowed a file to have multiple names associated with it. The > neat thing about this was that in many instances, you could > type out what you were looking for (using the underscore to > represent a blank between words) and you'd actually find out > there was a command with that name and it answered your question. > Adname support is something I miss. Soft links in unix have > subtle differences that drive you crazy if you try to use them > for this purpose. Then use hard links. "a file having multiple names associated with it" is hard links, quite clearly. -- David Kastrup Phone: +49-234-700-5570 Email: dak@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Fax: +49-234-709-4209 Institut für Neuroinformatik, Universitätsstr. 150, 44780 Bochum, Germany