Subject: Re: how to name fs specific programs
To: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/25/1997 21:12:13
Curt Sampson writes:
> On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> > 	$FSBIN/$FSTYPE/$FSCMD $ARGS
> 
> So what you're saying is that the above is significantly better than
> 
>     $FSCMD_$FSTYPE $ARGS
> 
> and
> 
>     for i in *_fstyp; do [stuff] ...
> 
> Or am I missing something here?

No you aren't missing anything.

Furthermore, he is claiming that breaking compatibility with existing
code and scripts doesn't matter, either, in order to get this
"improvement".

Talk about *religious*, geesh...

Perry