Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 17:59:25 -0800 From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: 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: <199703250159.RAA11475@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Mon, 24 Mar 1997 18:35:21 -0700 (MST) Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: > 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? ....there was already a (weak) precendent in BSD for suffixes... c.f. "newlfs". Of course, I don't recall checking what SVR4 did, either. It's not clear that it matters that much. Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939
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