Re: [PATCH] Debian packaging for 0.99.4
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Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
- Date
- Aug 12, 2005, 10:35 UTC
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- <Pine.LNX.4.62.0508120139230.19902@qynat.qvtvafvgr.pbz>
Hi,
David Lang:
> after so many years of software development (and with the policy of never > having conflicting command names) what three letter combinations are still > avilable? >
Lots.
> I'm assuming that the much smaller pool of two letter commands was long > since exhausted, but if not what two letter commands are available? >
Lots of them, I hope, but all of them obscure.
We even have 25 one-letter commands that are free. My /usr/bin/ only has 'w'. And if we run out, we could branch off into other alphabets; unfortunately, not everybody has a quick way to type an ä. Or α. Or ૐ. ;-)
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