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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