Re: [Netatalk-devel] Naming suggestions wanted for AppleDouble utility

[Frank L. <fra...@go...>]

2009/8/31 Andrew Morgan <mo...@or...>:
> On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Frank Lahm wrote:
>
>> As mentioned a few times I'd been working on a serverside utility
>> which duplicate unix file utilities with AppleDouble support.
>>
>> Unfortunately I've got somehow stuck afer finishing `ls` with a long
>> road still to walk. Meanwhile other stuff cropped up (replay cache)
>> which I might be interested in implementing first. So I'm thinking of
>> checking in my working ls tool so we could also release it with 2.1.
>> I've used the followning naming scheme: `ad <unix utlility> ...`, eg.
>> `ad ls ... `:
>>
>> Imo `ad ls` is nicer then `adls`. ad seems to be widely unused on most
>> unix'es, some packages might use though but I couldn't find (goolge)
>> any.
>> ad stands for AppleDouble of course.
>>
>> Other suggestions ?
>
> "AD" commonly refers to Active Directory.  I suppose that isn't a big deal
> in this case.  Would "adouble ls" be too much typing, or clash in some other
> way?

I'm very well prepared for this kind of argument: cp is cp and not copy. ;o)