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From: john@genrad.UUCP (John Nelson)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp
Subject: Re: System V introduces yet another inconsistency
Message-ID: <691@genrad.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 3-Mar-85 13:40:23 EST
Article-I.D.: genrad.691
Posted: Sun Mar  3 13:40:23 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 5-Mar-85 01:44:18 EST
References: <454@lsuc.UUCP> <424@bonnie.UUCP>
Reply-To: john@genrad.UUCP (John Nelson)
Organization: GenRad, Inc., Bolton, Mass.
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>Awww.  You done got me started cryin' now.  Boo Hoo.  Why not use an
>approach suggested by the uucp manual page ("manual?  what manual?  I
>never seen no manual before!?") and send to:
>
>	site!~/file

Well, I looked in both my Berkeley 4.1 manual, AND my Berkeley 4.2 manual,
and the format "site!~/file" is NOT documented,  So lets not get abusive,
huh?  I don't know if this is a feature added in system III, or just a
documentation clarification.

Even in my System III and System V manuals, the site!~/file format is
not really documented.

Quoted from the System III uucp manual entry (just happen to have it handy):

=>Path names may be one of:
=>  ...
=>2.  a path name preceded by ~user where user is a login name on the specified
=>    system and is replaced by that users's login directory
=>
=>3.  a path name preceded by ~/user where user is a login name on the specified
=>    system and is replaced by that users's directory under PUBDIR;

This is NOT THE SAME as site!~/file.  Oh, it is clarified in the "WARNING"
section, but it easy to understand the confusion.