From: utzoo!decvax!cca!dan@Bbn-Unix@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: Naming Conventions for System Libraries Article-I.D.: sri-unix.3409 Posted: Tue Sep 21 22:56:52 1982 Received: Wed Sep 22 04:58:14 1982 From: Dan FranklinDate: 17 Sep 1982 13:01:14 EDT (Friday) This is a good point. UNIX is actually quite unusual in not having such a standard prefix for system names. As a matter of C trivia, there are three printing ASCII characters not used anywhere in the language: dollarsign, at-sign, and backquote. Dollarsign seems like a reasonable choice for such a separator.