From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: usotsuki@buric.co (Steve Nickolas) Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 00:30:42 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [TUHS] Is the Teletype the unsung hero of Unix? In-Reply-To: <20160326035414.GJ3766@eureka.lemis.com> References: <201603251443.u2PEh8OZ019856@skeeve.com> <20160326035414.GJ3766@eureka.lemis.com> Message-ID: On Sat, 26 Mar 2016, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > Even now I tend to shorten file names. And I suspect I'm not the only > person who hates these excessively long > --options-that-could-have-been-written-more-succinctly. Probably it's > at least partially a mentality issue. I still like one-letter switches, and my programs sometimes use tons upon tons of them. Even well into the days of tab completion, I still often keep my filenames down to 8 characters or less plus extension, which leaves people wondering what the heck "L34-01.MP4" is. (spoiler: "Lupin the 3rd, Part IV, Episode 1") That said, just yesterday I was wondering what the heck "TANGALA.BAS" on my hard drive was. (It was a TANdy 1000 program that played the startup jingle from GALAga.) -uso.