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   vallor to ldo@nz.invalid   
   Re: Rationale for aligning data on even    
   01 May 25 00:57:42   
   
   XPost: comp.lang.c   
   From: vallor@cultnix.org   
      
   On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 23:56:40 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro   
    wrote in :   
      
   > On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:38:53 -0000 (UTC), Muttley wrote:   
   >   
   >> Its certainly not a scheme I'd use, but I've also seen Makefile and   
   >> makefile in the same package build directory in the past.   
   >   
   > The GNU “make” command, specified without a filename, looks for   
   > “GNUmakefile”, then “Makefile”, then “makefile”. The man page   
   >  says:   
   >   
   >     We recommend Makefile because it appears prominently near the   
   >     beginning of a directory listing, right near other important files   
   >     such as README.   
   >   
   > But is this still true for most people? I think the default sort   
   > settings these days no longer put all-caps names at the top.   
      
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   On Linux, try:   
      
   LC_COLLATE=C ls -l   
      
   ...and the capitalized filenames will float to the top.   
      
   (Discovered by logging into my Panix shell and inspecting   
   the behavior and settings there.)   
      
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