<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Eric Gallager <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:egall@gwmail.gwu.edu" target="_blank">egall@gwmail.gwu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Ah, so </span><i style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">that's</i><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> where those files were coming from... does anyone who uses the </span><font face="'courier new', monospace" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">rc</font><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> port know why they have to have such weird names? With names like that, I worry that my shell could possibly misinterpret them...</span></div>
</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Because `rc` is the Plan 9 shell and Plan 9 did not build anything into the shell that could be done outside of the shell. Heck, `rc` had to have stuff *added* to its Unix port, because on Plan 9 you don't need to build e.g. environment setting into the shell.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>And those names really aren't even very special even on Unixlikes. People have a tendency to forget that (and Plan 9 was something of a reaction to that; as Unix was minimalist compared to its forebears, Plan 9 was a minimalist reaction to what Unix was turning into).</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">In any case, there's not much chance of those files interfering with anything. They may confuse you if you're operating on them without path prefixes, but that's something you should be aware of anyway.<br clear="all">
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