Re: Capitalisation of uucp/UUCP/UUcp?

[Michael Lewis <lewism -at- BRANDLE -dot- COM -dot- AU>]

As it happens, Unix people ARE renowned for their grasp of the shift
key: Unix is case-sensitive. The command must be entered as uucp --
anything alse will either cause an error or execute something different
(in the unlikely event that their machine has something called Uucp
installed...)

Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
>
> I have a tricky one involved with my current project which is about uucp
> (Unix to Unix copy).  Now this non-acronym is formed by UU which means
> Unix to Unix and the Unix "cp" command which is the command for copying
> and is lower case.
>
> Now by rights it _SHOULD_ be UUcp but I've never seen it spelt that way.
> I prefer uucp myself, which I see in most documentation but then most of
> this documentation is by programmers and hackers who aren't renowned for
> their grasp of the shift key 8)
>
> So what should it be?
>
> PLUR
>
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