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From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: arp CD command change???
Message-ID: <3435@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 15 Feb 89 14:20:34 GMT
References: <8902131846.AA21527@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> <35960@bbn.COM>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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In article <35960@bbn.COM>, cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) writes:
> You might ask why UNIX files follow an
> unbelivably cramped and unnatural 'extension' scheme.

Because the system was designed on 110-baud teletypes.

> The primary
> answer is that because of the DUMB wildcard facility, you could not
> easily pick up all of the object files if the extension was a
> reasonable ".REL", or check out all the libraries if they were ".LIB"
> (whereas "*.o" and "*.a" _does_ work).

So does *.REL and *.LIB. I really don't see what point you're making
here. Personally I prefer to either say '.o' and '.a', or go all out
and say '.relocatable' and '.library'. What's so special about 3 uppercase
characters?

>  It is a *real* loser that UNIX
> doesn't support full regular expressions in its filename matching.

Yes, but the example you gave above doesn't demonstrate this.
-- 
Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva  `-_-'  Hackercorp.
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