On Sun, May 24, 1998 at 04:20:34PM +0200, joost@pc47.mpn.cp.philips.com wrote: > > > Its a direct-to-disk recorder and contains: > > > record (no cdrom support), cdrom-record and play-sample > > I'm a bit scared to ask, because I don't want to start a thread, but are > > these the names of the executables? > > > > The reason I ask is becasue it is depreciated to use dictionary words, > > because of namespace wasting... well, especially "record" seems to be too > > general. > > > > Comments? > > Using generic names is not a bad thing, claiming them is. > Maybe you should have a look at update-alternatives. update-alternatives will only work for programs that perform a similar task, such as n editors, n pagers or so. "Record" itself is a general name which could be "record from the soundcard", "record from the bttv board", "record keystrokes" ... I believe that's what Markus tried to point out. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * joey@infodrom.north.de * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ / There are lies, statistics and benchmarks. /
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