From: "Robert Comer" 

I was thinking of alias as well, but I'd actually want to make some of the
switches make sense too.

Though I do wonder why anyone hasn't come up with a prebuilt alias list for
things like this...

- Bob Comer


"Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
news:3de634d7$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Look up 'alias' for the (t)csh, and presumably for bash too.
>
> Paul
>
> "Antti Kurenniemi" 
wrote in message
> news:3de621ee$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > I wouldn't even care about the DOS compatibility (although that would be
> > easy for *me* to use), but I'd very much like full words as commands. It
> > takes me roughly 0.02 seconds to type the extra 2 or three letters - but
> it
> > takes me two hours to find someone who remembers wether it was
"xvzf" or
> > "zxvf" or...
> >
> > I'd really, really like to be able to "list" instead of
"ls". Maybe it's
> > just me, but meaningful words are easier to remember.
> >
> >
> > Antti Kurenniemi
> >
> > "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
> > news:3de61c08$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > I don't see why someone couldn't write a shell that has DOS compatible
> > > naming of the commands...
> > >
> > > - Bob Comer
> > >
> >
> >
>

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