Hi again, > Then we wouldn't have things like "I thought it stood for catalogue". > :-)
BTW, Acorn's BBC did have a *Cat command and that did stand for catalogue. It showed a listing of the files in the current `directory' of the filesystem, synonym "*." because you wanted to type it so often. Perhaps that's the source of cat -> catalogue. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-02-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
