tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Feb 15 01:29:44 1994
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Re: Computer languages
- From: mark <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Computer languages
- Date: Tue, 15 Feb 94 14:21:11 EST
bIngDaq bIHbogh mu'tlhegh ghItlh J.C.Kirk:
* * *
You could then have a whole set of batch files (ie files ending
in .bat), and each of these would contain 1 line - a normal DOS
command. Thus you might have teq.bat, which would contain the
line del. This might cause difficulties though in terms of
arguments. One other method is to go through your DOS directory
and change the names of all the files so that they have klingon
names instead of english ones.
* * *
I can guarantee trouble if you try this.
First reason: Any batch file that calls a renamed command,
INCLUDING YOUR AUTOEXEC.BAT FILE, will have to be changed to use
the new name. Are you sure you know where all your batch files
are, including ones written by other people in support of various
things you do?
Second reason: When a batch file calls another batch file, the
call has to be made with the command CALL. If it isn't, the
called file will not return control to the calling file, but
simply exit, and any commands in the calling file that follow the
call will not be executed. So the change is not a
straightforward name replacement.
Third reason: I/O redirection doesn't work with calls to batch
files, either from the command line or within a batch file. So,
while
dir > mylist
will list your current directory to the file MYLIST, a call like
De'ghItlhmey > mylist
[ignoring the problem of length of file names, and assuming that
you have a batch file De'ghItlhmey.bat that contains the single
line
dir
] will list your current directory to the screen and create an
empty file called "mylist".
Fourth reason: A number of basic commands don't exist as
separate files at all, but are implemented by the DOS executable
COMMAND.COM, which (if I've got this right) loads when you start
up your system. Dir, in fact, is one of them. So there's no
file to rename.
Some of these reasons overlap. But the bottom line remains:
MS-DOS ra'mey DapongchoH 'e' yInIDQo'!
I *do* give some of my DATA files Klingon names, and I minimize
the name-length problem by mapping each Klingon letter to a
single ASCII character, with the mapping used in the KLIpIqaDmey
font:
ASCII: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y '
Klingon: a b ch D e ng gh H I j q l m n o p Q r S t u v w tlh y '
- marqem
Mark A. Mandel
Dragon Systems, Inc. : speech recognition : +1 617 965-5200
320 Nevada St. : Newton, Mass. 02160, USA : [email protected]