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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:32:40 -0400
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] naming conventions
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> I've been catching a little flack off and on about the Plan 9's naming
> convention of adding a '9' in front of program names.  I've also noticed
> that using emulators, on the linux side, prefixing a 9 breaks history
> utilization functionality in most of the shells I use.

your shell is broken.  [0-9] are perfectly valid anywhere in a unix file
name.

- erik