From: "John P. Linderman" <jpl.jpl@gmail.com>
To: arnold@skeeve.com
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Speaking commands [Was: Bell System Technical Journal archive]
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 10:39:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC0cEp9kRS2zVX-o+wpzpQE71-e_wZQLkxA40RPnuuihgC2W7A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201807171320.w6HDKNTR023268@freefriends.org>
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Interesting that of all the commands mentioned, ar is (at least for me) no
longer used (although I haven't used ed in many years). As I recall it, ar
was mostly of use to address the extremely low limits on inodes and disk
space: the former by packing a bunch of files/inodes into a single file,
the latter by saving the wasted space on any file that wasn't a multiple of
512 bytes. I guess it lives on in the creation of "libraries" that could be
loaded by compilers, although I think shared objects have largely replaced
archive files, and I'm not sure if archive files are even accepted any more.
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 9:20 AM, <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:
> Nemo <cym224@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I was intrigued by BMK's comment that "ed" was never spokend as "ed"
> > by "those in the know", which leads me to wonder how things were
> > spoken.
>
> I always spelled out the two-letter commands: e-d, a-r, l-s, r-m, c-p.
> chmod I pronounced as ch-mod (not mode), but 'rmdir' was 'remove dir'
> and for some reason, mv was move. (I think the doc for vi officially
> stated that the proram's name was to be pronounced v-i and not 'vie'.)
>
> Undoubtedly there were many regional differences... :-)
>
> Arnold
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-20 22:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-17 12:33 Nemo
2018-07-17 13:20 ` arnold
2018-07-17 14:39 ` John P. Linderman [this message]
2018-07-18 17:39 ` arnold
2018-07-19 4:59 ` [TUHS] ar libraries [was: Speaking commands [Was: Bell System Technical Journal archive]] Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-07-19 15:29 ` Paul Winalski
2018-07-19 16:12 ` John P. Linderman
2018-07-20 23:01 ` [TUHS] Speaking commands [Was: Bell System Technical Journal archive] Kurt H Maier
2018-07-18 0:56 ` Ron Natalie
2018-07-18 3:54 ` arnold
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