[TUHS] Unix taste (Re: terminal - just for fun)
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Mon Aug 4 17:04:23 AEST 2014
On Sun, 3 Aug 2014, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> > I break with the past for character-erase, though: backspace, not #.
At one time, it was fashionable in Australia to claim that #/@ were
"traditional" in some sense (probably because the DEC assembler used them
as sigils), and when a US visitor came out he announced that most US sites
switched away from them, to the sound of dropping jaws.
> Do you still consider '^' the shell's inter-command pipe character?
I was surprised when "chdir" became "cd", but I suppose it fits the
philosophy of 2-letter commands.
-- Dave
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