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Date:      Mon, 29 Mar 1999 20:37:42 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        des@flood.ping.uio.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
Cc:        dkelly@hiwaay.net, zen@buddhist.com, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD: The Storage Wars
Message-ID:  <199903300137.UAA28595@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <xzpbthelitt.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> from Dag-Erling Smorgrav at "Mar 27, 99 11:32:30 pm"

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Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote,
> David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> writes:
> > I never could remember how to spell apropos but could always remember, 
> > "man -k".
> 
> "apropos" has two characters too many, and the letters are further
> apart on the keyboard than "man -k". No contest.

But 'apropos' only actually has 5 different characters and 'a'-'s' and
'o'-'p' are neighboring pairs on the keyboard. 'man -k' has that
really long reach for the '-.' There is a contest. ;P

(But if you alias 'apropos' to 'apr,' then there really is no
contest. Hehe.)
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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