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, wrote: > Nemo 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 >