I noticed this too when I started using dbmail, and misspelled it a couple of times, but as a result of using it quite often, I now spell maintenance perfectly every time, and I can type the whole command in a about half a second now.
Practice makes perfect. :) The point here is I'm not sure if I agree that is should be changed because it's easily misspelled, but I do agree it's pretty long. A really simple solution would to just make a shell alias. .bashrc: alias dbmail-util='dbmail-maintenance' ... would do the trick nicely. You could get fancy and do things like this too: alias dbmail-delete-old='dbmail-maintenance -dp' alias dbmail-cleanup='dbmail-maintenance -cf' or something like that. -Micah On Saturday 03 July 2004 12:46 pm, xing wrote: > A lot of you might find this irrelevant but I think it would be a good > change regardless of how small it is. > > Can we shorten the command name from: > > dbmail-maintenance > > to something shorter and much easier to spell? > > like > > 1) dbmail-util (this is probably the most sensible replacement) > 2) dbmail-check > 3) dbmail-maint > > Maintenance is one of the most frequently misspelled words in the English > dictionary which is why it has earned the distinction as being part of the > K-12 spelling test words which include other infamies such as mosquito. > > Just a little help for all the spelling challenged out there...like > myself.. > > Thanks. > > Xing Li > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dbmail-dev mailing list > Dbmail-dev@dbmail.org > http://twister.fastxs.net/mailman/listinfo/dbmail-dev
