-=> ANTTI KURENNIEMI wrote to ROBERT COMER <=-

 AK> I'd very much like full words as commands. It takes me roughly 0.02 
 AK> seconds to type the extra 2 or three letters - but it takes me two 
 AK> hours to find someone who remembers wether it was "xvzf"
or "zxvf" 

Either way is fine. The only one of those parameters whose placement
matters is the last, 'f', and that's only because it takes a parameter (the
filename).

Also, if you want full words, you can have them if you're using GNU tar (or
most any GNU program). In this case, the command you're talking about would
become:

 tar --extract --verbose --ungzip --file filename.tar.gz

(or "--ungzip --extract --verbose --file" -- it makes no difference). 
"xvzf" is just the short way to type it.

 AK> I'd really, really like to be able to "list" instead of
"ls".

alias list="ls"

Put it in your .bashrc if you want it all the time.

... The value of a program is proportional to the weight of its output.

--- MultiMail/Linux v0.44