Debian bug report logs - #1729
Naming of commands

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From: Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@lot49.med.miami.edu>
To: Juho A Vuori <javuori@cc.helsinki.fi>, debian-bugs-done@Pixar.com
Subject: Re: Bug#1729: Naming of commands
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On Sun, 22 Oct 1995, Juho A Vuori wrote:
> Oops, after sending my last mail, I noticed another thing. The man pages
> of lrz and lsz speak about commands called rz, sz, rb, ..., but the
> actual binaries are named lsz, ... In my opinion, it would be better if
> the commands were also called traditionally rz, sz, ..., but if not,
> then, please modify the man-pages. Or keep the original commands, but
> make symlinks to the traditional commands (and man-pages).

I have also done this in the updated lrzsz package --- the binaries are 
now accessible under their traditional names, as they were in the 
minicom-1.71 and as they weren't in lrzsz-0.11.

Cheers,

Mike.
--
"I'm a dinosaur.  Somebody's digging my bones."

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Package: lrzsz
Version: 0.11

Oops, after sending my last mail, I noticed another thing. The man pages
of lrz and lsz speak about commands called rz, sz, rb, ..., but the
actual binaries are named lsz, ... In my opinion, it would be better if
the commands were also called traditionally rz, sz, ..., but if not,
then, please modify the man-pages. Or keep the original commands, but
make symlinks to the traditional commands (and man-pages).