Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 12:31:19 -0600 (CST) From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) To: syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au (Stephen McKay) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au Subject: Re: All the good ones are taken. Message-ID: <9502151831.AA07621@olympus> In-Reply-To: <199502151327.XAA21672@pandora.devetir.qld.gov.au> from "Stephen McKay" at Feb 15, 95 11:27:51 pm
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> > 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 _______________________________________________________________________
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