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From: David Hogan dhog@pla...
Subject: no need for cd
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 02:30:59 -0500

>a comment on your message: there is no word 'prepend'; use 'prefix'.

But it's in the Jargon File!  :-) :-) :-)

:prepend: /pree`pend'/ [by analogy with `append'] vt. To
   prefix.  As with `append' (but not `prefix' or `suffix' as a
   verb), the direct object is always the thing being added and not
   the original word (or character string, or whatever).  "If you
   prepend a semicolon to the line, the translation routine will pass
   it through unaltered."