Timeline for answer to Is it part of any standard (e.g. POSIX), that system files should be lower case? by Andrew Henle
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| Aug 4, 2025 at 16:05 | vote | accept | Darren | ||
| Apr 16, 2017 at 8:52 | vote | accept | Darren | ||
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| Apr 11, 2017 at 8:53 | comment | added | rackandboneman | upper case names just feel gritty and adopted-from-a-mainframe :) | |
| Apr 10, 2017 at 10:59 | comment | added | fpmurphy |
@AndrewHenle, SMIs naming scheme for SunOS/Solaris conformed to the relevant standards and specifications. Both POSIX and Single Unix Specification define shouldto be essentially it is recommended
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| Apr 10, 2017 at 10:38 | comment | added | Andrew Henle | @fpmurphy1 Perhaps. But given how Sun treated POSIX compliance, I doubt the naming scheme they chose would violate any part of the standard. Nor would I think Sun would have had much success in convincing Oracle to use any naming scheme. | |
| Apr 10, 2017 at 10:35 | comment | added | fpmurphy | I believe that convention only applied to SunOS/Solaris. | |
| Apr 10, 2017 at 10:19 | comment | added | Darren | TIL this new titbit about stock tickers. Upvoted. Thanks. | |
| Apr 10, 2017 at 10:17 | history | answered | Andrew Henle | CC BY-SA 3.0 |