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Kartik Subbarao, to All on Friday April 24 1992:

 KS> In article <kveb78...@early-bird.think.com> bar...@think.com (Barry
 KS> Margolin) writes:
 >> Terminology question: are the Unix units of file storage called
 >> "filesystems" (one word) or "file systems" (two words)?  Neither is in
 >> TNHD.

 KS> Who cares? Do you "login" or do you "log in"? Does it matter?

Yes, Dammit!

GRAMMAR_SOAPBOX=ON; export GRAMMAR_SOAPBOX

'login' is a noun, used to refer to a prompt, or an occurance of a getty on a
terminal/port.

'log in' is a verb phrase, use to describe what you do when confronted  by a
'login'.

They are _not_ interchangable.

Since the other two are, to some extent at least, the analogy doesn't hold.

GRAMMAR_SOAPBOX=OFF

Cheers,
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