Which reminds me; we need to say:
You can abbreviate VMS commands and qualifiers (switches) to the smallest
number of characters that is not ambiguous. Some common examples:
DIRECTORY DIR
SHOW SHO
CREATE/DIRECTORY CRE/DIR
Many people recommend using full command and qualifier names in command
files, both for readability and in case a later command makes an
abbreviation ambiguous.
--Bob van Keuren
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael G Schwern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 11:26 pm
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: reverse (qw(VMS to Linux HOWTO));
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 05:27:26PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Unfortunately for vi afficionados, the VIEW verb (for the
> CDA Viewer) confuses unix folk who try to run:
>
> $ vi login.com
> %CDA-E-UNSUPFMT, unsupported document format
OH! So *that's* what that is.
--
7a. Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two (you can't have all three).
-- RFC 1925
