On Mon, 24 Mar 1997 18:35:21 -0700 (MST) 
 Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote:

 > Curious: why aren't they using it as a prefix instead of a suffix?  It
 > would seem to make more sense as a prefix, for all sorts fo string
 > manipulation reasons, including argv[ 0] and _ replacement with 0
 > for string split issues...
 > 
 > Is it just that SVR4 does it with prefixes, and NIH rules?

....there was already a (weak) precendent in BSD for suffixes... c.f.
"newlfs".

Of course, I don't recall checking what SVR4 did, either.  It's
not clear that it matters that much.

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