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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: ND-10 (was Re: DMA is obsolete)
Date: Sun, 4 May 2025 02:10:06 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 3 May 2025 23:30:52 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote:

> The command language was unexpectedly smart, allowing many
> abbreviations for the commands. I think the same abbreviation rules
> also applied to filenames.

I should hope not. It’s bad enough having the possibility of scripts 
breaking in later OS versions, just because some new command got added, 
it’s worse if the breakage can happen just because a new file was created 
that the script wasn’t expecting.