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From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Subject: Re: ugly name for core dumps (core.imagename) -> patch for "img.core"
References: <13326@dirac.physics.purdue.edu> <1993Oct27.170050.1573@matuc2.mat.uc.pt>
Organization: Brandon's Linux box and AmPR node, Mentor, OH
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 23:40:25 GMT
Message-ID: <1993Oct27.234025.11194@kf8nh.wariat.org>
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In article <1993Oct27.170050.1573@matuc2.mat.uc.pt> rps@matuc2.mat.uc.pt (Rui Pedro Mendes Salgueiro) writes:
>    1 - 'name.core' is better than 'core.name', but now is a little
>	late to change things.

If all you care about is BSD 4.4 compatibility, maybe.  The Linux folks
debating this don't necessarily need to be bound by that....

++Brandon
-- 
Brandon S. Allbery	   kf8nh@kf8nh.ampr.org		 bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org
"MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years
of careful development."  ---dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca