Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA73735 for pups-liszt; Sat, 5 Feb 2000 00:18:48 +1100 (EST) Received: from moo.sysabend.org (postfix@moo.sysabend.org [209.0.55.68]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA73731 for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2000 00:18:40 +1100 (EST) Received: by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 675307562; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 05:21:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B8E61D8E; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 05:21:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 05:21:11 -0800 (PST) From: Jamie Bowden To: Greg Lehey Cc: UNIX Heritage Society , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Why upper case configuration file names in BSD? In-Reply-To: <20000204084928.E26290@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: Approved: yep X-representing: Only myself. X-badge: We don't need no stinking badges. X-obligatory-profanity: Fuck X-moo: Moo. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-pups@minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, 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've always done mine lowercase. I wasn't aware I was violating any sort of tradition. Jamie Bowden -- "Of course, that's sort of like asking how other than Marketing, Microsoft is different from any other software company..." Kenneth G. Cavness