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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:"Ed Wurster" <eawurster -at- hotmail -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 9 Jan 2004 11:36:26 -0500
Elizabeth OShea wrote:
> "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?
Context will have something to do with what's acceptable:
(step) 435. Open the command editor.
(step) 436. Type "run google /y \n :maybe"
However, since you are forcing me to vote:
"at the command line"
Ed
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