Re: A convention for -file

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Author: Guest Moderator, John B. Chamber...
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1986 21:23

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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



Volume-Number: Volume 8, Number 59

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