Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!rbutterworth
From: rbutterworth@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ray Butterworth)
Newsgroups: uw.mfcf.bugs
Subject: Re: watcgl now has two versions of vi
Message-ID: <29601@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 29 Sep 89 19:57:16 GMT
References: <11624@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <29418@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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> Besides, Unix systems are set up to use and clean /usr/preserve properly;

Unfortunately, that's not true.

> why do we need to move it for the MFCF bug fixes to vi?  I can understand
> moving it if we had introduced an incompatible vi that didn't read the
> same save file format; but, we haven't done that.

Some unix versions don't have a /usr/preserve (look at agsun).

Under our rules, I'm not allowed to create /usr/preserve on that machine.
And since I'd have to make up cron entries teaching it to clean this
different directory on this type of host, it is much simpler to 
make all hosts look the same.