[m-dev.] [ddw at miscrit.be: mmc vs a_mmc vs mumc]

[Fergus Henderson]

On 21-Nov-2000, Peter Ross <peter.ross at miscrit.be> wrote:
> ----- Forwarded message from Dominique de Waleffe <ddw at miscrit.be> -----
> once again I have been hit by this stupid problem of having mmc.exe
> in my path before the mmc shell script and after 2 hours nothing had
> compiled since Microsoft Management Console had started and was
> waiting for an OK which I'd not seen...
...
> Do you think it'd possible to convince your MU friends to rename [I know,
> once again the files to avoid those conflicts (another exists for ml,
> where ml.exe is microsoft assembler....).
>
> My suggestion would be to: 
> 
> mmc -> mumc for Melb. Univ Merc Compiler
> ml -> muml for Melb. Univ Merc Linker

The problem with that is that we don't want to be confused with Melb
Uni Private, so it would need to be `ummc' and `umml', for `Univ. of
Melb.', and those names are not great to pronounce :-(

> An alternative approach would be to give explicit extensions to the
> shell scripts and make the installation scripts use the 
> ftype command to install an association and pathext to make sure the
> shell scripts are seen before the executables.

That would be fine with me, if someone else implements it ;-)

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