Afloyd.66 net.unix-wizards utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!harpo!floyd!trb Mon Feb 8 12:31:45 1982 unix utility peeves here are two of my pet unix utility peeves: peeve #1 In vanilla ed: (besides the fact that it should be put to pasture)... When I used to use ed, I sometimes had to program in one of those fine languages whose compiler only accepted UPPER CASE. So, naturally, I would turn on CAPS LOCK. So there I would go, merrilly inputting... a [caps lock] LALALA, I'M HAVING A GOOD TIME HACKING... ... [1/2 hour later, without a care in the world...] ... END . [junk so that postnews will not terminate my message here, dammit!] W ? [echoed by ed] Q $ [echoed by sh, ARRGH!] If you see the person who put capital Q into ed as the forced quit, tell her I love her. peeve #2 cd is easy to mistype as dc. I do it all the time. For you rogue fans out there, typing "dc /usr/include" is like running into a floating eye. It doesn't hurt all that much, but you have to goof around a little to fix yourself up. dc doesn't exit when you hit del, so you watch as it prints out results of its trying to interpret the directory as a dc script [ha]. I fixed the dc on my system to check to see if your dc script is a directory, and to exit with a message when it does. (Having it do a cd would have been misbegotten and practically impossible besides.) Andy Tannenbaum Bell Labs Whippany, NJ (201) 386-6491 ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.