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To: lucio@proxima.alt.za, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] silly suggestions
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 21:21:16 -0800
From: geoff@collyer.net
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'#' at the start of a file name implies a device file, so it's a poor
choice to replace '_'.  I believe that replica only renames an old
file to _file if it's in a known directory of executables (e.g.,
/386/bin, /rc/bin, /acme), so the _file names shouldn't be a big
problem.  As far as I know, no actual executable's name starts with
'_', so it's safe to remove /386/bin/_*, for example.