Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!pacbell.com!ames!rex!samsung!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!boingo.med.jhu.edu!haven!decuac!shlump.nac.dec.com!pa.dec.com!decwrl!brister From: brister@decwrl.dec.com (James Brister) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Why has Digital $ in their headerfiles in ultrix? Message-ID: Date: 25 Jan 91 18:47:38 GMT References: <1991Jan21.152619.2771@lth.se> <1991Jan23.032441.734@tkou02.enet.dec.com> <1991Jan24.051427.9214@ircam.fr> <1991Jan25.042230.4789@decuac.dec.com> Sender: news@pa.dec.com (News) Organization: DEC Western Software Lab Lines: 12 In-Reply-To: avolio@decuac.dec.com's message of Fri, 25 Jan 91 04:22:30 GMT X-Checksum-Snefru: a54e3956 e0678718 e3ce4b26 75fe6707 The idea behind the '$' in VMS tokens/filenames etc. Was that the '$' was "reserved" to DEC, and therefor wouldn't ever clash with a user or thrid-paty specified token/filename etc. Unfortunately, until recently the DEC universe has been revolving around VMS (now it's a binary star system), so extracting all the VMS'isms from stuff moved to Ultrix is a lot of work. James "Who is in NO way speakling for DEC (they don't pay me enough)." -- James Brister brister@decwrl.dec.com DEC Western Software Lab., Palo Alto, CA {uunet,sun,pyramid}!decwrl!brister