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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.unix
Subject: Re: 1003.2: command name changes
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Date: 30 Jan 90 22:17:28 GMT
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From: Doug Gwyn <gwyn@smoke.brl.mil>


In article <514@longway.TIC.COM> Donn Terry <donn@hpfcrn.hp.com> writes:
>I have been trying, so-far unsuccessfully, to get 1003.2 to reserve a
>namespace to the vendors for options for these commands (at least) ...

My recommendation for years has been that vendor additions be confined
to upper case, leaving lower case options for the (gradually growing)
standard environment.

Volume-Number: Volume 18, Number 32