Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site down.FUN Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!down!honey From: honey@down.FUN (code 101) Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp Subject: Re: System V introduces yet another inconsistency Message-ID: <457@down.FUN> Date: Sun, 3-Mar-85 08:03:34 EST Article-I.D.: down.457 Posted: Sun Mar 3 08:03:34 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 08:06:32 EST References: <454@lsuc.UUCP> <1242@eagle.UUCP> <5138@utzoo.UUCP> Organization: Princeton University, EECS Lines: 21 uucp man pages since time immemorial have documented ~uucp. surprisingly, henry spencer suggests that at&t's decision to support this convention is arrogant and insular. for shame, henry. are you suggesting is that some sort of magic should make ~uucp mean something different? unclean! it is hardly arrogance on at&t's part for individual uucp administrators to put uucp's home directory where they choose. e.g., allegra has been running with the uucp home directory in /usr/lib/uucp (where it belongs!) essentially forever, without complaint. not until honey danber has ~/file been properly documented; this is now almost fixed: the man page indicates that ~/file stands for /usr/spool/uucppublic/file, which is almost true. while the default public directory is /usr/spool/uucppublic, this may be changed by declaring LOGNAME=uufoo PUBDIR=whatever in the Permissions file. perhaps the real man page (which is offline, in my office) gets it right. peter