On 10/28/21 11:59 AM, George N. White III wrote:
Now I encounter confusion when I ask that posts in scientific
forums
copy and paste text from the "terminal" into a post because their screen
snapshot is difficult to read and cuts off critical information at the end
of a long line.
BTDT. Once, when I was doing tech support for a company selling
security equipment to self-storage facilities I started a tempest in a
teapot because a brain fart made me forget the term multimeter and I
referred to it in my notes as a VOM. Later, I almost caused another one
by calling a power light a pilot light but caught myself in time.
When I was doing support for an ISP, I reluctantly referred to folders
because that's what the callers understood, but if we had to go to a
CLI, I'd call them directories, explaining that it was the proper term
in that environment.