In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 04/16/2006
at 12:00 AM, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>You deliberately chopped my message to make it look like an error.
You're lying.
>Name one OS that does not allow you to display the contents of a
>file to your screen,
Why? I didn't say that there was such an OS, just that there was an OS
without a command called list.
>'Catenate' is not in common usage!
Then use concatenate.
>I actually had to look it up.
You've been using Unix for lo these many years and you still did not
know what that word meant? Wow!
>But, my point is that 'cat' is not intuitive.
Lots of things are not intuitive, many of them in MVS. The world is
full of abbreviations, many of them quite useful.
>At least with PC/DOS 'type' is understandable.
Type is not cat. The closest PC-DOS equivalent to cat is copy.
>LIST was intended as a generic discription.
It's a description that does *NOT* apply to cat.
>Not as something for pedants to quibble over.
The fact that you don't understand the point doesn't make it pedantic.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
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