Why upper case configuration file names in BSD?

[Joerg B. Micheel]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 08:49:28AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
> 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?

I have no knowlegde, but a guess. Berkeley must have had different
machines with different hardware configurations.  Conditional
compilation is done with a dependency flag. GENERIC defines -DGENERIC.
A MICROVAX file would imply -DMICROVAX. It may be for this reason
only, conventions.

	Joerg
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