From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 3 16:28:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.sw.oz.au (smtp.sw.oz.au [203.31.96.1]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 788A54F28 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 14:37:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from peterc@localhost) by smtp.sw.oz.au (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) id JAA19456; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 09:37:42 +1100 (EST) From: Peter Chubb MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14490.822.632534.491258@swag.sw.oz.au> Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 09:37:42 +1100 (EST) 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> References: <20000204084928.E26290@freebie.lemis.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.71 under 21.1 "Gimme a 6 and 5!" XEmacs Lucid (patch 2) Comments: Hyperbole mail buttons accepted, v04.023. Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>>>> "Greg" == Greg Lehey 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