Why upper case configuration file names in BSD?

Greg Lehey grog at lemis.com
Fri Feb 4 08:19:28 AEST 2000


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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