My first thought when I see "cp" is "central processor." How about using "NIO" as an alias of "cp" (meaning "copy"), where "NIO" stands for "Not Intuitively Obvious"? "cpy" is much more intuitively obvious to me than "cp". Our MVS world is not without similar egregious examples. E.g, some of the operator/user commands for Omegamon were very cryptic. Bill Fairchld Franklin, TN
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Gilmartin" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, November 6, 2013 8:54:04 AM Subject: Re: Aging Sysprogs = Aging Farmers On Tue, 5 Nov 2013 21:33:20 -0500, Gerhard Postpischil wrote: > >IIRC, IBM has had a simple COPY command ever since TSO/E - no JCL >needed. JCL is unpleasant only if you're not used to it; I've run on >Univac, Unisys, CDC, and other systems, and found JCL to be a good >compromise of simplicity and power. > I believe the last time I looked for COPY in the TSO/E Commands manual I couldn't find it. But it was long ago; I might have forgotten or things might have changed. >And I find "cp" terribly confusing - to a neophyte does it stand for >copy, or compare, or compress (as in disk reorganization). It might make >more sense if I could assign an alias of COPY to it. > Whereas it's intuitively obvious that IEBGENER means "copy". Give me a break! You can assign whatever alias you choose (even IEBGENER) to "cp" with a single command; either as a shell alias or as a symbolic link. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
