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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:"Richard G. Combs" <richard -dot- combs -at- voyanttech -dot- com> To:techwr-l Date:Sat, 10 Jan 2004 10:54:32 -0700
Elizabeth OShea 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?
At the command prompt.
On the keyboard.
In the morning.
;-)
Richard
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Voyant Technologies, Inc.
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