Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 21:23:13 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: perry@piermont.com Cc: cjs@portal.ca, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, port-i386@netbsd.org Subject: Re: how to name fs specific programs Message-ID: <199703260423.VAA26968@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199703260212.VAA03254@jekyll.piermont.com> from "Perry E. Metzger" at Mar 25, 97 09:12:13 pm
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> > So what you're saying is that the above is significantly better than > > > > $FSCMD_$FSTYPE $ARGS > > > > and > > > > for i in *_fstyp; do [stuff] ... > > > > Or am I missing something here? > > No you aren't missing anything. > > Furthermore, he is claiming that breaking compatibility with existing > code and scripts doesn't matter, either, in order to get this > "improvement". What about "semantic seperation of command names from the FS on which they are intended to operate"? Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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