From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Feb 4 5:18:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from moo.sysabend.org (moo.sysabend.org [209.0.55.68]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9E3A40A8 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 05:18:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 675307562; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 05:21:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B8E61D8E; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 05:21:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 05:21:11 -0800 (PST) From: Jamie Bowden To: Greg Lehey Cc: UNIX Heritage Society , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Why upper case configuration file names in BSD? In-Reply-To: <20000204084928.E26290@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: Approved: yep X-representing: Only myself. X-badge: We don't need no stinking badges. X-obligatory-profanity: Fuck X-moo: Moo. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: :I've just been asked a rather unusual question: when you build a BSD :kernel, the name of the configuration file is traditionally upper :case. Does anybody have insight as to why this should be? I've always done mine lowercase. I wasn't aware I was violating any sort of tradition. Jamie Bowden -- "Of course, that's sort of like asking how other than Marketing, Microsoft is different from any other software company..." Kenneth G. Cavness To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message