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Re: potato missing /dev's



In article <[🔎] 20000129022331.24673.qmail@web2104.mail.yahoo.com> you wrote:

> Also I couldn't find a man page for MAKEDEV, but I
> forgot that it was CASE SENSITIVE.  (whose idea was it
> to name the script in upper case anyway? :->). 

Historical... I'm sure it was so that it would sort to the front of 'ls' 
output in the /dev directory, where it has lived through history.  Because of
devfs, it now installs in /sbin and gets symlinked into /dev.

Bdale


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