On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, Chris G. Demetriou wrote:

> The big advantage that this has over .o files in NetBSD (which is a
> "normally-source" environment) is that people can more easily check
> the uuencoded files into their revision control trees (without having
> to worry about RCS keyword expansion, or 8-bit cleanliness, or
> anything else).

Not to mention they're rather less likely to get removed when
someone discovers he built without an obj symlink in portion of
the tree and just does a `find /usr/src -name *.o -exec rm {} ;'
to clean up.

cjs

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