Subject: Re: Compressed vnd handling tested successfully
To: Andrew Gillham <gillham@gmail.com>
From: Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh@jodi.nimenees.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/14/2005 14:12:34
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:24:52AM -0700, Andrew Gillham wrote:
> On 6/14/05, Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de> wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> > > Please call it "vndcompress" rather than "vncompress". Actually, maybe
> > > "vndzip" is even better?
> >
> > I think the english word for the action being taken here is "compress",
> > not "zip" (checked via http://dict.leo.org :), so let's go for
> > "vndcompress" (and "vnduncompress").
But NetBSD speaks unixese not english, and vndzip is a lot easier
to type than vndcompress.
> Hubert, you need "vnddecompress" since there is no English word uncompress. :)
eh? It sounds like english to me. (and it is listed on e.g. www.dictionary.com)
eric