[GLLUG] Meeting Thursday, September 28

[Jordan Robison]

i plan on being there

On 9/26/06, STeve Andre' <andres at msu.edu> wrote:
>
> 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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Jordan Robison
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