David Laight wrote:
> Actually it is a stupid idea!
> Or rather allowing partial matches is what is stupid.
It's not stupid, not even a little bit. And before anyone
blames/credits
the GNU folks, does no one remember, say, VMS? Or I'm sure
there are
other obvious examples of prior art.
$ /usr/games/trek
* * * S T A R T R E K * * *
Press return to continue.
What length game: ?
short medium long restart
What length game: sh
What skill game: ?
novice fair good expert
commodore impossible
What skill game: no
Enter a password:
5 Klingons
5 starbases at 0,2, 1,2, 7,1, 6,3, 3,6
It takes 250 units to kill a Klingon
I used VMS for a few years. I quickly learned to type the
least at the
console and to spell everything out in my scripts.
Only a sadist would require that every long command be
spelled out
precisely and completely. The alternative is very short
options, which
eventually become impossibly cryptic. (Quick, what does
"ls -m" do?)
--jkl
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