Bits Question

[Kip Warner]

On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 04:04 +0000, Dave Korn wrote:
> It's just a name.  Nobody has ever thought that hard about it because
> it
> doesn't really matter any.  "misc" would have been as good, but
> someone chose
> "bits" way back when, and there'd be no benefit to anyone to change
> it, so
> no-one cares.  Directory names can only be vaguely descriptive after
> all, they
> can't really convey an awful lot of information about the source files
> within
> them using a limited number of characters, so people don't think it's
> worth
> "trying too hard" over directory names.
> 
>     cheers,
>       DaveK 

Thanks Dave. That was helpful.

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