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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.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.magicnet.net!nntp1.jpl.nasa.gov!netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov!usenet From: Don Heller <dheller@pop.jpl.nasa.gov> 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: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 16:50:57 -0700 Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory Lines: 15 Message-ID: <33C57561.4C6D@pop.jpl.nasa.gov> References: <5p797t$f4n@news0-alterdial.uu.net> <33B806A0.1E03920B@ncofsi.com> <33B937C5.2473@facstaff.wisc.edu> Reply-To: dheller@pop.jpl.nasa.gov NNTP-Posting-Host: heller.jpl.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:3682 comp.unix.shell:46992 comp.os.linux.misc:184342 comp.os.linux.x:66308 alt.os.linux:23026 gnu.misc.discuss:32269 comp.unix.solaris:112417 David Lawver wrote: > > > > >>users. (Same thing I suppose.) To quote from the vi manual: "vi - > > > >>pronounced vee-eye". > > Not on the three major-vendor Unices I checked... But see the O'Reilly book, Learning the vi Editor. On page 1: (vi is short for visual editor and is pronounced "vee-eye.") -- Donald W. Heller, Voyager Flight Team Simplest job description on the project: Make everything work with everything else.