From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 15 10:33:30 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id KAA29002 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 15 Feb 1995 10:33:30 -0800 Received: from devnull.mpd.tandem.com (devnull.mpd.tandem.com [131.124.4.29]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA28995 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 1995 10:33:23 -0800 Received: from olympus by devnull.mpd.tandem.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id MAA23661; Wed, 15 Feb 1995 12:32:51 -0600 Received: by olympus (4.1/TSS2.1) id AA07621; Wed, 15 Feb 95 12:31:20 CST From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) Message-Id: <9502151831.AA07621@olympus> Subject: Re: All the good ones are taken. To: syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au (Stephen McKay) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 12:31:19 -0600 (CST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au In-Reply-To: <199502151327.XAA21672@pandora.devetir.qld.gov.au> from "Stephen McKay" at Feb 15, 95 11:27:51 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL17] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1411 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. > The chat program ala uucp stole the name a long time ago. The ppp chat uses the same format and thus deserves the name. It may even be the uucp code. Boyd -- _______________________________________________________________________ Boyd Faulkner faulkner@isd.tandem.com _______________________________________________________________________