Hello Neal H Walfield!
On Sun, 23 April 2000 at 08:55:48, you wrote:
>
> Is this command a verb or a noun?
Both if you please, assuming 'lock'. ;-)
> ie, if, when this command is encountered, the user is
> prompted for a password, then I think that `authenticate'
> is appropriate.
Not even then. Do you have to authenticate yourself if you
need to open a door with a key? Of course - there are doors
with key-cards that enable you to unlock them if you have the
access right and can proof your identity by means of the
key-card but that's not the situation we are in. What we have
at hand is a pretty normal lock and a pretty normal key.
> If, however, when this command is encountered, the user
> is not privileged and the script just stops, then I think
> that `lock' is appropriate.
Strange notion, apart from the fact that there never was a
script - at least - not in the sense you refer to. Besides
- even if it were it would be the interpreter that stops -
not the script. ;-)
/bye
Dirk
