Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp Subject: Re: System V introduces yet another inconsistency Message-ID: <5169@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 12:16:33 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.5169 Posted: Tue Mar 5 12:16:33 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Mar-85 12:16:33 EST References: <454@lsuc.UUCP> <1242@eagle.UUCP> <5138@utzoo.UUCP>, <457@down.FUN> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 20 > 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. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry