From: Brantley Coile <brantleycoile@me.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] bug in exportfs
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 07:13:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <58BAD4A2-0F36-404B-8A13-A4A4737733F3@me.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOw7k5jbOad2CXsGqym4DzmgQtH-hddn1fS_LMJ0-qRHD_W-Lg@mail.gmail.com>
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Ah, my memory fails me, mostly due to too much time on Unipress machines in the 1980's.
Sent from my iPad
> On Feb 15, 2016, at 7:08 AM, Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> On 15 February 2016 at 10:55, <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:
>>
>> Whereas I agree that the leading-dot convention ought to be buried, in
>> reality (a) it is not going to just go away and (b) if it was so
>> readily accepted, it must have fulfilled a need.
>
> There is no "leading dot" convention in Plan 9.
> That's in BSD-derived UNIX, and it's the result of an simplified hack in ls, which was fixed in Seventh Edition.
> If you can open it, it's obviously not "hidden": it's just inconvenient to use with grep *.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-15 12:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-16 23:31 arisawa
2015-12-17 11:40 ` Peter Hull
2015-12-17 13:05 ` arisawa
2015-12-22 9:25 ` Peter Hull
2015-12-22 10:02 ` arisawa
2016-02-13 14:26 ` Charles Forsyth
2016-02-14 2:00 ` Prof Brucee
2016-02-14 10:27 ` hiro
2016-02-14 12:21 ` Charles Forsyth
2016-02-14 12:33 ` Charles Forsyth
2016-02-14 16:38 ` cinap_lenrek
2016-02-14 22:57 ` Charles Forsyth
2016-02-15 1:05 ` arisawa
2016-02-15 6:12 ` Bruce Ellis
2016-02-15 10:34 ` Charles Forsyth
2016-02-15 10:55 ` lucio
2016-02-15 12:08 ` Charles Forsyth
2016-02-15 12:13 ` Brantley Coile [this message]
2016-02-15 15:05 ` lucio
2016-02-15 15:24 ` erik quanstrom
2016-02-15 12:44 ` lucio
2016-02-15 12:48 ` Charles Forsyth
2016-02-15 14:03 ` lucio
2016-02-15 15:38 ` erik quanstrom
2016-02-15 15:56 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2016-02-15 12:18 ` Charles Forsyth
2016-02-15 15:30 ` erik quanstrom
2016-02-15 23:32 ` Charles Forsyth
2016-02-19 14:12 ` Charles Forsyth
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