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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!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!194.119.128.129!news.u-net.com!sylph.u-net.com!sylph.u-net.com!not-for-mail From: badvoc@sylph.u-net.com (Badvoc) 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: 25 Jun 1997 22:56:32 -0000 Organization: 53 Friary House, Guildford. Lines: 25 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5os7n0$ai@sylph.u-net.com> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <3390a559.4210811@news.dircon.co.uk> <3392FE4F.1667@att.com> <5mvqtk$ml6$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <5n2phh$jda@cicsun.univ-bpclermont.fr> <5neore$rci$1@mnb20.pet.cam.ac.uk> <339C5457.52179F59@ncofsi.com> <5nrdh7$5p@sylph.u-net.com> <x7206261di.fsf@pc37.mpn.cp.philips.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: p35.ascend3.is2.u-net.net X-No-Archive: yes Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:46541 comp.os.linux.misc:182247 comp.os.linux.x:65164 alt.os.linux:22724 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3612 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43560 gnu.misc.discuss:31962 comp.unix.solaris:110865 In article <x7206261di.fsf@pc37.mpn.cp.philips.com>, Jim Reid wrote: >badvoc@sylph.u-net.com (Badvoc) writes: >> I though everyone pronounced "vi" as "vye" and "cp" as "copy". >Only the people who don't really know what they are doing. And DOS >users. (Same thing I suppose.) To quote from the vi manual: "vi - >pronounced vee-eye". >It may be superficial, but one way of seperating the wheat from the >chaff when it comes to assessing someone's UNIX skills is how they >pronounce the name of that editor. If they've never even read the vi >manual, then the obvious conclusions can be drawn. As far as I'm aware the vi manual is not freely available. So it is not uncommon for people to have never had access to the vi manual only the manual to their vi clone such as elvis. On a related not does anyone know where I can get a bourne shell manual from? -- Christopher John Purnell | Since I was born I started to decay cjp@sylph.u-net.com | Now nothing ever ever goes my way