Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxq.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxq!ken From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow) Newsgroups: net.cog-eng,net.unix Subject: Re: name=value or -n value? Message-ID: <793@ihuxq.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Mar-84 11:17:14 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxq.793 Posted: Wed Mar 21 11:17:14 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 22-Mar-84 01:04:42 EST References: <44@circe.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 23 -- About a year ago I was working with a severely cut-up Unix* clone for 8-bit micros called UniFlex. Aside from changing command names to words that actually mean what the command does (viz. cat -> list, pwd -> path, grep -> find), they (TSC Corp in N.C.) changed the option flag from "-" to "+", so that you type "command +n value". This made intuitive sense, as an option is generally a sort of add-on, but I ultimately disassembled their shell and built my own with the traditional Unix* "-", mostly because I couldn't stand having to shift to hit the "+" when everything else was lower-case. Most terminals I've worked on have "+" as an upper-case character. The rhythm of typing a command convention is at least as important as the convention itself. * My employer suggests that I point out the obvious fact that Unix is a trademark of AT&T Bell Laboratories. -- *** *** JE MAINTIENDRAI ***** ***** ****** ****** 21 Mar 84 [1 Germinal An CXCII] ken perlow ***** ***** (312)979-7261 ** ** ** ** ..ihnp4!ihuxq!ken *** ***