From andre@boombox.micro.umn.edu Thu Nov 5 04:02:09 1992 Received: from boombox.micro.umn.edu by mudhoney.micro.umn.edu (5.65c/Tony Tiger 1.34) id AA19758; Thu, 5 Nov 1992 10:00:59 -0600 Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 10:02:09 CST Message-Id: <9211051602.AA18596@boombox.micro.umn.edu> Received: from erina.micro.umn.edu by boombox.micro.umn.edu; Thu, 5 Nov 92 10:02:09 CST From: "Andre' V. Thomas" Reply-To: "Andre' V. Thomas" To: ellen@boombox.micro.umn.edu, alberti@boombox.micro.umn.edu, dal@boombox.micro.umn.edu, dmj@boombox.micro.umn.edu, daniel@boombox.micro.umn.edu, earl@boombox.micro.umn.edu, grg@boombox.micro.umn.edu, ht@boombox.micro.umn.edu, joanne@boombox.micro.umn.edu, kathy@boombox.micro.umn.edu, lesa@boombox.micro.umn.edu, lindner@boombox.micro.umn.edu, mary@boombox.micro.umn.edu, mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu, natalie@boombox.micro.umn.edu, phk@boombox.micro.umn.edu, sec@boombox.micro.umn.edu, simin@boombox.micro.umn.edu, suet@boombox.micro.umn.edu, terri@boombox.micro.umn.edu, andre@boombox.micro.umn.edu, michele@boombox.micro.umn.edu, mad@boombox.micro.umn.edu, anne@boombox.micro.umn.edu, pmg@boombox.micro.umn.edu, karin@boombox.micro.umn.edu Subject: A UNIX Alphabet Status: OR ------------ Forwarded Message begins here ------------ THE ABC'S OF UNIX A is for Awk, which runs like a snail, and B is for Biff, which reads all your mail. C is for CC, as hackers recall, while D is for DD, the command that does all. E is for Emacs, which rebinds your keys, and F is for Fsck, which rebuilds your trees. G is for Grep, a clever detective, while H is for Halt, which may seem defective. I is for Indent, which rarely amuses, and J is for Join, which nobody uses. K is for Kill, which makes you the boss, while L is for Lex, which is missing from DOS. M is for More, from which Less was begot, and N is for Nice, which it really is not. O is for Od, which prints out things nice, while P is for Passwd, which reads in strings twice. Q is for Quota, a Berkeley-type fable, and R is for Ranlib, for sorting ar [sic] table. S is for Spell, which attempts to belittle, while T is for True, which does very little. U is for Uniq, which is used after Sort, and V is for Vi, which is hard to abort. W is for Whoami, which tells you your name, while X is, well, X, of dubious fame. Y is for Yes, which makes an impression, and Z is for Zcat, which handles compression. ------------ Forwarded Message ends here ------------ ...- ...- ...- .-- -... -.... .- - .--- -..-. .-- ...- Andre' V. Thomas andre@boombox.micro.umn.edu Computer & Information Services (612) 625 - 1300 University of Minnesota