Vowel-insensitive UNIX Filenames
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Wed Oct 8 07:36:07 AEST 1986
From: hammond at lafite.bellcore.com (Rich A. Hammond)
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 86 08:13:22 edt
As long as we're proposing case-insensitive filenames, we should
fix the real user interface problem and have vowel-insensitive
filenames. We've had many problems with users who typed
"move" to rename a file, or once they had learned mv, couldn't
understand why "ct" didn't cat. And of course, they are forever
trying to chdir to /user. Clearly, vowel-insensitive filenames
i.e. move == mv, usr == user, ld == load, name == nm, ...
would eliminate many of the complaints about UNIX's user interface.
Rich Hammond Bell Communications Research hammond at bellcore.com
[ Ok, this is different, but I seem to recall the issue of command
names being beat to death in other fora, perhaps including a CACM paper.
If someone can recall the details, please post.
Also, I assume this wasn't really meant as input to P1003 (actually
P1003.2, since it's a shell interface issue), because that group is
trying to standardize what's there, not invent new things.
For that matter, it couldn't have been a *gasp* joke, could it?
-mod ]
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