Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!ucsd!ames!ubvax!vsi1!altnet!edc From: edc@ALTOS.COM (Eric Christensen) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: 'from' conflict with UCB Message-ID: <561@altnet.ALTOS.COM> Date: 6 Jul 88 16:58:29 GMT References: <1596@bu-tyng.bu.edu> <6138@uwmcsd1.UUCP> Reply-To: edc@altnet.UUCP (Eric Christensen) Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA. Lines: 23 In article <6138@uwmcsd1.UUCP> dave@csd1.milw.wisc.edu (David A Rasmussen) writes: >From article <1596@bu-tyng.bu.edu>, by oneill@bu-tyng.bu.edu (Brian O'Neill): >> I just realized that there is a program '/usr/ucb/from' already on most BSD >> system, and it conflicts with Elm's 'from'. They have the same basic >> purpose, but different output (I like Elm's). However, I did not want to >> just remove /usr/ucb/from, in case anyone needs it, but having two 'from' >> commands just leads into trouble. Perhaps a name change is in order to >> prevent this conflict?? > >I call the elm version 'frm' for whatever that's worth. Agreed! As much as I hate to change it, that's a good idea. Unless someone has a reasonable bitch, from(1) will become frm(1) in the 2.0 release. -- +-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+ | Eric D. Christensen | Email: edc@altnet.altos.com (uunet!altnet!edc) | | Altos Computer Systems +--------------------------------------------------+ | 399 West Trimble Road | Note: There are no spelling errors in this | | San Jose, Ca. 95131 | message.... I just can't type! | +-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+ | These views aren't Altos' - They're mine, all mine, and you can't have them| +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+