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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp
Subject: Re: System V introduces yet another inconsistency
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Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 12:16:33 EST
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> it is hardly arrogance on at&t's part for individual uucp
> administrators to put uucp's home directory where they choose.

Except that it breaks a convention that much of the uucp world has
come to rely on.  If you don't care what you break (this attitude
is known as "arrogance" if one is feeling polite, and by less printable
words if one has just been bitten by it), you can change anything.

> 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 ...

I'm glad to hear that Honey Danber has finally documented this stuff.
I agree, by the way, that ~/file is a far-superior notation.  But a
good part of the world has been using ~uucp for quite a while, and
the conversion problem needs to be handly gently and patiently, not
by arbitrary fiat.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry