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RE: straw poll: do you type a command on, at, or in the command line?
Subject:RE: straw poll: do you type a command on, at, or in the command line? From:"John Posada" <JPosada -at- isogon -dot- com> To:"Elizabeth OShea" <elizabeth -dot- oshea -at- virtualaccess -dot- com>, "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 9 Jan 2004 10:56:29 -0500
AT the command line.
WHY?
In reality, you aren't entering "ON" a line or "IN" a line, but AT a
place on the screen where the application is expecting input. Where are
you typing? AT the place where it is expecting input, which we happen to
call Command Line.