Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA70286 for pups-liszt; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 09:58:30 +1100 (EST) Received: from begemot.org (negara.cs.waikato.ac.nz [130.217.248.112]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA70281 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 09:58:22 +1100 (EST) Received: (from joerg@localhost) by begemot.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id MAA26860; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 12:00:00 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from joerg) Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 12:00:00 +1300 From: "Joerg B. Micheel" To: Greg Lehey Cc: UNIX Heritage Society , FreeBSD Chat , joerg@begemot.org Subject: Re: Why upper case configuration file names in BSD? Message-ID: <20000204120000.A26832@begemot.org> References: <20000204084928.E26290@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20000204084928.E26290@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 08:49:28AM +1030 Organization: Begemot Computer Associates Operating-System: ... powered by FreeBSD Sender: owner-pups@minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 08:49:28AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > I've just been asked a rather unusual question: when you build a BSD > kernel, the name of the configuration file is traditionally upper > case. Does anybody have insight as to why this should be? I have no knowlegde, but a guess. Berkeley must have had different machines with different hardware configurations. Conditional compilation is done with a dependency flag. GENERIC defines -DGENERIC. A MICROVAX file would imply -DMICROVAX. It may be for this reason only, conventions. Joerg -- Joerg B. Micheel Email: Begemot Computer Associates Phone: +64 7 8562148 40 Masters Avenue, Hillcrest Fax: +64 7 8562148 Hamilton, New Zealand Pager: +64 868 38222