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Message: [QUOTE="Rob Warnock, post: 1777097"] +--------------- | [email]rpw3@rpw3.org[/email] (Rob Warnock) wrote: | >| Consider the "PIP" command. | >+--------------- | > | >Indeed. And COPY & DEL & DIR, etc. | | Well, not quite :-). COPY and DELETE called PIP via a CCL | command. DIRECT became its own program. To do a directory | using PIP required a switch and wasn't a monitor level command. +--------------- Yes, I knew that. What I was trying to convey is that the *names* of those DOS commands had also been copied from the DEC lineages. That is, COPY/DEL/DIR rather than cp/rm/ls. -Rob [/QUOTE]