David Kalnischkies wrote: > On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Justin B Rye <[email protected]> wrote:
>> following naming convention: the extension is "<literal>pref</literal>" >> or nothing and filenames contain only alphanumeric, hyphen (-), >> underscore (_) and period (.) characters. > > "the extension is nothing" sounds equally strange to my ears. 'the extension is "<literal>pref</literal>" or absent', maybe? Though Unix does not have a concept of filename extensions like DOS does. It might be even clearer to say something like 'the filename either ends with <literal>.pref</literal> or contains no period (.) characters' to avoid ambiguity. Just my 2¢, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120606153422.GB9354@burratino
