Subject: Re: dump for MS-DOS partitions.
To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@cs.cmu.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/24/1997 21:03:01
> 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?
"Ask the former members of CSRG, not us."
They're the ones who started using mount_*.
cgd