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"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
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> One clever case where the convention was violated was in the
> name of the debugger on some UNIX system I used, SCO I think.
> It came in two flavors, "dbxtra" and "dbXtra". The former
> invoked a command-line version that ran in a terminal session,
> while the latter ran using a GUI (under X Window, hence the name).

The Unix version of "make" also violates the convention, in that if no make
script file is specified on the command line, it first tries to use the file
"Makefile" as a script, and if that is not available, it tries to use
"makefile". Needless to say, this can create problems when porting Unix code
to a case-insensitive OS.