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From: std-unix@ut-sally.UUCP (Guest Moderator, John B. Chambers)
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Subject: Re: A convention for -file
Message-ID: <6414@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Nov-86 16:23:22 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 21 16:23:22 1986
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>From munnari!runx.oz!dave@seismo.UUCP Thu Nov 20 01:38:54 1986
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 86 22:15:59 AEST
From: munnari!runx.oz!dave@seismo.UUCP (Dave Horsfall)

It is writ:
    Side note:  the Instructional WorkBench (IWB), in its Unix(R)
    Fundamentals course, makes specific note that one should avoid
    making files starting with '+' or '-'.  It makes this the specific
    subject of one of its programmed-learning questions.
    
EVERY Unix manual I've seen has said something like "It is unwise
to use file names starting with '-'".  And I've used Unix since
good ol' Edition 5 ...  Don't people read manuals anymore?


Dave Horsfall
Sun Computer Australia



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