Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 18:58:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> Cc: Studded <Studded@dal.net>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>, dan@math.berkeley.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: time for some new man pages Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980929185523.11107M-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <19980929170415.A29583@nuxi.com>
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On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, David O'Brien wrote: > > I'd really be interested in a survey about this change. I'm willing to > bet that to most a SCSI disk is simply that a *S*CSI *D*isk. FreeBSD has > now added yet one more incompatibility (or if you prefer, yet something > different, aka NIH) to the Unix world. > > What ever happened to the policy of least supprise? I called it sd because that's what it seemed to be called on most other systems. (POLA) Apparently Justin disagrees. He's doing the code. It would probably require a large core vote to change it.. personally I think it's a gratuitous change, but I've done worse myself. I doubt that it would cause much long term heartache. julian > > -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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