Hi all,

I thought that was a realy good thing Andrew Tarr did with the Directory
Structure.

What I found most frustrating at first was getting to grips with the
acronyms. Dir for directory was obvious, but in Linux it was called ls.

It was some time and several books later I discovered it stood for LiSt
files!! Now if someone had told me that at the beginning, I'd have
remembered it no trouble.

Similarly, pwd - Print Working Directory. Obvious what it does when you
know what it stands for.

I see some having trouble with the email acronyms, such as AFAIK, IMHO,
IIRC, ROTFL and so on. This really was a bad habit generated by one finger
typists (IMHO!). What does it really take to write "In my humble opinion"
"As far as I know" "If I remember correctly" "Rolling on the floor
laughing"? Or at least "In my HO" to give a clue?

OK, I know some people are not good typists, but we all have to learn, eh?

But more important, we should avoid using acronyms when answering posts in
case newbies are reading them too, and especially when answering a newbie's
post.

Don't mean to offend anyone, just my 0.02c worth.

David Stringer

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