On Sun, May 24, 1998 at 04:20:34PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Its a direct-to-disk recorder and contains: > > > record (no cdrom support), cdrom-record and play-sample
> > I'm a bit scared to ask, because I don't want to start a thread, but are
> > these the names of the executables?
> >
> > The reason I ask is becasue it is depreciated to use dictionary words,
> > because of namespace wasting... well, especially "record" seems to be too
> > general.
> >
> > Comments?
>
> Using generic names is not a bad thing, claiming them is.
> Maybe you should have a look at update-alternatives.
update-alternatives will only work for programs that perform a
similar task, such as n editors, n pagers or so. "Record" itself
is a general name which could be "record from the soundcard",
"record from the bttv board", "record keystrokes" ... I believe
that's what Markus tried to point out.
Regards,
Joey
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