recode -> recoder

Dr T. Carver tcarver at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk
Wed May 16 10:01:32 UTC 2001


Fine by me.

Tim

On Wed, 16 May 2001 gwilliam at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk wrote:

> Does anyone know of a reason why 'recode' should not be called 'recoder'?
> 
> >Subject: 
> >        [recode] program name
> >   Date: 
> >        Wed, 16 May 2001 11:23:49 +0200
> >   From: 
> >        Philipp <pixelpapst at users.sourceforge.net>
> >     To: 
> >        emboss-bug at embnet.org
> >
> >Hi All,
> >I've recently started investigating EMBOSS, which i find very usefull.
> >One thing i want to report (although you've probably heard this before)
> >because it almoust instantly bit me is the program name collision
> >of "recode" with the popular unix program of the same name (compare
> >http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/recode/HTML/ ).
> >
> >I'm not sure if one can consider this a "bug" (meaning it's a problem
> >that should be resolved) or not, but it sure is inconvinient (and breaks
> >our systems' printing configuration :)).
> >
> >If you reply, please CC me.
> >
> >Bye,
> >  Philipp
> 




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