INSTALL.adoc

Hal Murray halmurray at sonic.net
Fri Apr 4 04:53:10 UTC 2025


[README-PYTHON]
.> What would be the standard name?
> Dunno.  Never seen a file like that, so can'tany be any standard.

I think README is a fairly common name for a file in a direcory if you are 
trying to help somebody get started.  It's common enough that it has a 
Wikipedia page.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/README

I don't know of any standard for that sort of thing, but I've seen it 
enough and it makes sense.  Anything in all UPPER case stands out in a 
directory listing.

README-foo is an obvious extension.

HOWTO is another common term.  That's why I added HOWTO-OpenSSL.  I needed 
it for my use so I cleaned it up a bit and put it where others might see 
it.


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