>>My point was that all OS's have a LIST command. >Your point is in error.
You deliberately chopped my message to make it look like an error. Name one OS that does not allow you to display the contents of a file to your screen, and also is a productive OS. >>I was told that LIST was an invalid description of what the command >>did. What word would you pick? >For cat? Catenate. That's what it does and what it always did. 'Catenate' is not in common usage! I actually had to look it up. I did not realise that 'catenate' and 'concatenate' were synonyms. But, my point is that 'cat' is not intuitive. At least with PC/DOS 'type' is understandable. LIST was intended as a generic discription. Not as something for pedants to quibble over. - -teD O-KAY! BLUE! JAYS! Let's PLAY! BALL! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
