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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>
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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