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Re: motd

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barr3y Jaspan)
Thu Aug 15 20:06:10 1991

Date: Thu, 15 Aug 91 20:04:06 -0400
From: "Barr3y Jaspan" <bjaspan@MIT.EDU>
To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Cc: amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [2029]


>> I suspect that ~/.motdrc is less likely to be used by people's
>> dotfiles

... and it's a lot less intuitive, as well; adding "rc" to the end of
something like .motd just doesn't make any sense, particularly to a
non-Unix person.  Face it, Ted, your dotfiles are weird and everyone
else should be forced to conform. :-)


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