Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 09:37:42 +1100 (EST) From: Peter Chubb <peterc@aurema.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: UNIX Heritage Society <pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Why upper case configuration file names in BSD? Message-ID: <14490.822.632534.491258@swag.sw.oz.au> In-Reply-To: <20000204084928.E26290@freebie.lemis.com> References: <20000204084928.E26290@freebie.lemis.com>
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>>>>> "Greg" == Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> writes: Greg> I've just been asked a rather unusual question: when you build a BSD Greg> kernel, the name of the configuration file is traditionally upper Greg> case. Does anybody have insight as to why this should be? The same reason that Makefile has an upper-case first letter -- so it appears early in an ls listing, rather than in the middle of a big long list. Peter C To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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