Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 21:03:01 -0500 From: "Chris G. Demetriou" <cgd@cs.cmu.edu> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: thorpej@nas.nasa.gov, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, hackers@freebsd.org, port-i386@netbsd.org, darrenr@cyber.com.au Subject: Re: dump for MS-DOS partitions. Message-ID: <12331.859255381@auchentoshan.pdl.cs.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 Mar 1997 18:35:21 MST." <199703250135.SAA24334@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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> Curious: why aren't they using it as a prefix instead of a suffix? It > would seem to make more sense as a prefix, for all sorts fo string > manipulation reasons, including argv[ 0] and _ replacement with 0 > for string split issues... > > Is it just that SVR4 does it with prefixes, and NIH rules? "Ask the former members of CSRG, not us." They're the ones who started using mount_*. cgd
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