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From: drake@ibmarc.uucp (Sam Drake)
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Subject: Re: AIX - How is it? (Summary - long)
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Date: 8 Aug 89 17:40:04 GMT
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In article <2461@orion.cf.uci.edu> fleming@balboa.UUCP (Dennis Paul Fleming) writes:
>	The two most frustrating in my experience where
>		telnet (called tn in AIX) and
>		ftp (given the name xftp)
>
>	Why IBM would shorten one command name and lengthen the other
>is beyond me.

Please consider upgrading your system to the current release of AIX/RT.
Earlier releases had that problem, but the current release uses the BSD
names entirely.

Sam Drake / IBM Almaden Research Center