Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!amdcad!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!hjm From: hjm@cernvax.UUCP (hjm) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Forth "Pre-Compiler" Keywords: AT&T, Utilities, Baden, Editor, Yiddish_Proverbs Message-ID: <804@cernvax.UUCP> Date: 21 Aug 88 14:36:35 GMT References: <8808032106.AA01436@jade.berkeley.edu> <1563@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <2651@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <1567@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <6826@well.UUCP> <1573@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> Reply-To: hjm@cernvax.UUCP () Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland Lines: 29 In article <1573@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> orr%cs.glasgow.ac.uk@nss.ucl.ac.uk (Fraser Orr) writes: >In article <6826@well.UUCP> jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr) writes: >It is my ambition, to save people having to remember command names, to write >a unix utility called "command" that does everything you want.E.g., > > command -ls > >lists the current directory, > > command -cat filename | command -wc -l > >copies the file named "filename" into a pipe and counts the number of lines > >===Fraser Orr (orr%cs.glasgow.ac.uk@nss.ucl.ac.uk) Great, add in 9 extra characters to type and make people remember "options" and not "commands". Since all of your "commands" now begin with the same 9 characters, why not get the shell to add them on for you to save typing? So, your commands would be easily remembered as: ls and cat filename | wc -l Sounds good, huh? A major advance in user-ergonomics! Hubert Matthews