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  3. October 2005

RE: TV Ad (I'm the man)

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James H 
> H Lampert
> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 3:21 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: TV Ad (I'm the man)
> 
> James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > So what if 10^36 is a large number?  . . .  How many 
> >sensible english descriptive phrases can be made with 10 
> >characters?  Not very many, and that is the problem.  The 
> >problem is not running out of unique character 
> >combinations, it is running out of sensible descriptive 
> >contractions.
> 
> Who wants to type a 50-character-long command?
i want it, cause every decent shell or editor (bash or eclipse f.e.) can 
complete the command/filename after typing 2 or three letters and pressing tab 
or at least give another selection.

my 2 cents.

mk

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