From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] Unix taste (Re: terminal - just for fun)
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 17:04:23 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1408041657470.56292@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8C399A14-6407-469E-99F2-C59EC0429319@orthanc.ca>
On Sun, 3 Aug 2014, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> > I break with the past for character-erase, though: backspace, not #.
At one time, it was fashionable in Australia to claim that #/@ were
"traditional" in some sense (probably because the DEC assembler used them
as sigils), and when a US visitor came out he announced that most US sites
switched away from them, to the sound of dropping jaws.
> Do you still consider '^' the shell's inter-command pipe character?
I was surprised when "chdir" became "cd", but I suppose it fits the
philosophy of 2-letter commands.
-- Dave
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-04 2:54 Norman Wilson
2014-08-04 3:11 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2014-08-04 7:04 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2014-08-04 9:12 ` Steve Nickolas
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2014-08-06 22:24 Norman Wilson
2014-08-06 22:19 Norman Wilson
2014-08-04 20:21 Norman Wilson
2014-08-04 22:24 ` A. P. Garcia
2014-08-05 2:41 ` Andy Kosela
2014-08-05 3:32 ` Warner Losh
2014-08-03 16:48 Noel Chiappa
2014-08-03 17:09 ` John Cowan
2014-08-03 11:49 Noel Chiappa
2014-08-03 12:14 ` Steve Nickolas
2014-08-03 16:26 ` John Cowan
2014-08-04 13:59 ` Tim Bradshaw
2014-08-04 14:53 ` A. P. Garcia
2014-08-03 0:48 Noel Chiappa
2014-08-03 8:00 ` A. P. Garcia
2014-08-02 21:18 Noel Chiappa
2014-08-02 23:44 ` A. P. Garcia
2014-08-02 16:47 Noel Chiappa
2014-08-02 18:51 ` Ian King
2014-08-02 14:28 Doug McIlroy
2014-08-02 14:00 ` Larry McVoy
2014-08-02 15:51 ` Steve Nickolas
2014-08-02 16:07 ` John Cowan
2014-08-02 17:28 ` Benjamin Huntsman
2014-08-02 19:50 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-08-02 16:04 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2014-08-02 16:03 ` Larry McVoy
2014-08-02 19:36 ` Dave Horsfall
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