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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!platinum.sge.net!como.dpie.gov.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!not-for-mail From: mail25193@pop.net (Fred Trottelhauer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: unix acronyms - collecting a list? Date: 30 Jun 1997 03:30:05 GMT Lines: 83 Distribution: world Message-ID: <5p797t$f4n@news0-alterdial.uu.net> Reply-To: mail25193@pop.net NNTP-Posting-Host: 1cust103.max51.new-york.ny.ms.uu.net X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:3615 comp.unix.shell:46625 comp.os.linux.misc:182629 comp.os.linux.x:65365 alt.os.linux:22776 gnu.misc.discuss:32046 comp.unix.solaris:111160 In article <slrn5qm36k.fvi.avenger@macabre.kaelos.hna.com.au>, avenger@macabre.kaelos.hna.com.au (Andre van Eyssen) wrote: >In article <x7206261di.fsf@pc37.mpn.cp.philips.com>, Jim Reid wrote: >>badvoc@sylph.u-net.com (Badvoc) writes: >> >>> Jonathan Bodarky <jbodarky@ncofsi.com> writes: >>> >>> > Relax, everyone. What if someone pronounces "su" as "soo", "vi" and >>> >"vye" ? Personally, I pronounce say "remove" when I am referring to >>> >"rm" and "copy" when I refer to "cp". >>> >>> 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. > > >Conclusions to be drawn >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >a) This person reads the VI manual >b) This person has too much time. >c) This person either i) has no life > ii) has no job > iii) both >d) Therefore: lacks social skills >e) And should not be employed, as they will not be able to interact with fellow >workers. Glad to see you have your priorities straight. Yours is the kind of orientation that advances the state of the art. >Andre van Eyssen, >Kaelos Computing. (T4216908) > >"One who is not wise himself cannot be well advised" > ---Machiavelli > The Prince s23 Have you ever pondered that statement at greater length ? Fred Flatulence of the mind is harder to remedy than flatulence of the body. When I hear the words 'Connected', 'Trust' and 'Under Control', I reach for my revolver. If UNIX is the revenge of the nerds, the rest of the industry is the football team and the cheerleading squad trying to produce a science project, and expecting an 'A' because they're the football team and the cheerleading squad.