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Date:      Tue, 25 Mar 1997 21:12:13 -0500
From:      "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To:        Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, port-i386@netbsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to name fs specific programs 
Message-ID:  <199703260212.VAA03254@jekyll.piermont.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Mar 1997 17:43:51 PST." <Pine.NEB.3.96.970325174121.11795L-100000@cynic.portal.ca> 

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Curt Sampson writes:
> On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> > 	$FSBIN/$FSTYPE/$FSCMD $ARGS
> 
> So what you're saying is that the above is significantly better than
> 
>     $FSCMD_$FSTYPE $ARGS
> 
> and
> 
>     for i in *_fstyp; do [stuff] ...
> 
> Or am I missing something here?

No you aren't missing anything.

Furthermore, he is claiming that breaking compatibility with existing
code and scripts doesn't matter, either, in order to get this
"improvement".

Talk about *religious*, geesh...

Perry



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