Quoth Philip Hazel on Tue, Feb 20, 2001:
> BSDI netstat uses dot
> FreeBSD netstat uses dot
I'd just call it 'BSD' or '4.4BSD', because none of them changed
it, AFAIK.
> Plan 9 uses exclamation mark
In options to various programs, as in 'telnet tcp!sashimi!25'.
Netstat on Plan 9 says simply:
tcp 38 vadik Established 11730 ftp sashimi.foo.bar
> Anybody seen anything else?
Not me...
> On that basis, I don't think dot is really such a bad idea after all.
Choose a character, any character... Damn, it's taken.
Vadik.
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If you think C++ is not overly complicated, just what is a protected
abstract virtual base pure virtual private destructor, and when
was the last time you needed one?
-- Tom Cargill, C++ Journal, Fall 1990.