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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:"T. Word Smith" <techwordsmith -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 9 Jan 2004 09:00:23 -0800 (PST)
FWIW,
"what's a command line" = about 1,140,000.
--- Goober Writer <gooberwriter -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
>
> > I've already Googled this one, and the results
> were:
> >
> > "on the command line" = about 449,000 hits
> > "at the command line" = about 69,400 hits
> > "in the command line" = about 65,000 hits
> >
> > I don't consider 449,000 sufficiently large to be
> > authoritative! What do Tech-WRLers think?
>
> I think that context matters and consistency within
> a
> document is more important than adherence to the
> global norm.
