std-unix@ut-sally.UUCP (10/08/86)
From: hammond@lafite.bellcore.com (Rich A. Hammond) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 86 08:13:22 edt As long as we're proposing case-insensitive filenames, we should fix the real user interface problem and have vowel-insensitive filenames. We've had many problems with users who typed "move" to rename a file, or once they had learned mv, couldn't understand why "ct" didn't cat. And of course, they are forever trying to chdir to /user. Clearly, vowel-insensitive filenames i.e. move == mv, usr == user, ld == load, name == nm, ... would eliminate many of the complaints about UNIX's user interface. Rich Hammond Bell Communications Research hammond@bellcore.com [ Ok, this is different, but I seem to recall the issue of command names being beat to death in other fora, perhaps including a CACM paper. If someone can recall the details, please post. Also, I assume this wasn't really meant as input to P1003 (actually P1003.2, since it's a shell interface issue), because that group is trying to standardize what's there, not invent new things. For that matter, it couldn't have been a *gasp* joke, could it? -mod ] Volume-Number: Volume 7, Number 35