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One of the features of the command line ftp client is that (most of) its internal commands are full words; but as long as they remain unambiguous, you can abbre
by juliangregorian 11y ago
One of the features of the command line ftp client is that (most of) its internal commands are full words; but as long as they remain unambiguous, you can abbreviate them as much as you want. Why more systems don't adopt this approach, I don't understand.
- ChuckMcM 11y agoThe down side of this is that later adding a command which forces another letter to be typed breaks previous scripts and finger memory.
- juliangregorian 11y agoIt's an inconvenience, but it's hardly an exotic situation. If it breaks backwards compatibility just save it for a major version release. It wouldn't even do the wrong thing, just complain about a certain command being ambiguous, and you'd have to fix it.