[geeks] Swapping Sparc boxes...

Kurt Mosiejczuk kurt at csh.rit.edu
Sat Dec 20 03:25:10 CST 2003


On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, William Enestvedt wrote:

> Kurt wrote:

> > > i can see why u instead of l for lun, for typographical reasons.

> > And those would be?  Seriously, I want to know...

>    Because a lower-case "ell" and a numeral-one often look alike, and there
> will *ahem* often be ones in device names.
>    Or were you yanking my chain?

No, I wasn't yanking.  I didn't remember that.  I tend to use fonts that
tend to differentiate well the difference between a '1' and an 'l'.  That's
a good point though.

--Kurt



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