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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
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Subject: Why upper case configuration file names in BSD?
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I've just been asked a rather unusual question: when you build a BSD
kernel, the name of the configuration file is traditionally upper
case.  Does anybody have insight as to why this should be?

Greg
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