Subject: Re: Terse device names
To: Iggy Drougge <iggy@kristallpojken.org>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/22/2002 13:48:47
On 21 Apr 2002, Iggy Drougge wrote:
> What the sources look like internally is of no interest to the end user.
To some end users. To others, the sources are quite interesting.
One of the reasons I started using NetBSD was because the source
was available to be read.
> But hey, why couldn't NetBSD use an alias system, so that lamers like
> me could type elink, whereas programmers and people who use ifconfig a
> lot type ep?
As someone else said in that very message you posted:
> Have you tried BASH or ZSH?
elink="ep"
ifconfig $elink ...
cjs
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