From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 15 05:25:16 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id FAA08837 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 15 Feb 1995 05:25:16 -0800 Received: from bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au (bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au [130.102.2.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id FAA08831 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 1995 05:25:15 -0800 Received: from cc.uq.oz.au by bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au id <19783-0@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au>; Wed, 15 Feb 1995 23:25:07 +1000 Received: by pandora.devetir.qld.gov.au (8.6.7/DEVETIR-E0.3a) id XAA21672; Wed, 15 Feb 1995 23:27:54 +1000 From: Stephen McKay Message-Id: <199502151327.XAA21672@pandora.devetir.qld.gov.au> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org cc: syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au Subject: All the good ones are taken. Date: Wed, 15 Feb 95 23:27:51 EST Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm of the opinion that there aren't many good names out there. So I was rather surprised to find that such a good name as "chat" has been taken by a lowly dialer program! Yes, the PPP dialer program. This is a behind-the-scenes program, so it can be called anything, as ugly as you like. How about "dial-me-up-a-ppp-host-thanks", or even "pppdial". What set me off today? Well, I'm one of the crowd of people who wrote a chat program, before IRC cornered the market. I call it "chat". I want to vote PPP "chat" out of its spot, and leave the name free! I want to dust off my old program and play with it, maybe even give it away. I now know that /usr/bin/chat has been around at least since 1.1, so this is a rather late gripe, but it's still what I want. Even if "chat" is forever lost to ppp, I ask you all to consider your naming carefully. Those ANSI C people care about their name space. Does POSIX? I think we should too. Stephen (Concerned Conservationist) McKay.