[GLLUG] Meeting Thursday, September 28

[STeve Andre']

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 <eric.john.miller at gmail.com> 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.
>
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