i plan on being there <div>On 9/26/06, STeve Andre' <<a href="mailto:andres@msu.edu">andres@msu.edu</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> The ls command is from Multics; it stands for 'list segments'. Multics was fun. --STeve Andre' On Tuesday 26 September 2006 11:57, Caleb Cushing wrote: > they are short because of when they were written... a computer in 1969 > had less memory and processing power than your alarm clock ;-) > > On 9/26/06, Eric Miller <<a href="mailto:eric.john.miller@gmail.com">eric.john.miller@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > Same here. ls is short for list. I guess the "logic" behind this is that > > you can remove vowels and still understand what it is combined with the > > desire to save keystrokes (lst is one key longer than ls). Some may > > think it's taken a bit to the extreme in *nix but I like the most common > > commands as short as possible. In DOS the commands are usually short > > (e.g. dir = ls). > > > > Half to admit I was confused at first, having come from a DOS > > background, by some of the tongue-in-cheek names like less = more. > > > > Remember those support calls where you had to explain to a user how to > > type "type" so they could cat a file? Most of the time I resorted to > > spelling it out. :-) > > > > Caleb Cushing wrote: > > > remind me to refute this in my presentation, because, sorry tom, this > > > is simply untrue, or irrelavant most commands make more sense to me > > > than in other os's and proprietary has names that are just as weird or > > > make less sense. > > _______________________________________________ > linux-user mailing list > <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> > <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> _______________________________________________ linux-user mailing list <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> </blockquote></div> -- Jordan Robison