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Subject: Re: System V introduces yet another inconsistency
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Date: Sun, 3-Mar-85 08:03:34 EST
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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