Stupid man pages
Norman Yarvin
yarvin-norman at CS.Yale.EDU
Sun Jun 10 12:39:53 AEST 1990
Anselmo-Ed at cs.yale.edu (Ed Anselmo) writes:
>Most of the old paths still work (/usr/man, /usr/spool, /usr/adm), so
>most users don't notice the change.
Until they do something like
%ls -l /usr/include | more
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 19 May 31 10:00 /usr/include -> /server/usr/include/
%
and then have to try again with /server/usr/include.
It's no big deal, but these things add up. With 590 symbolic links in /usr,
and 24 NFS mounts, learning where things are becomes like trying to find
your way around in Adventure. Once you've found a file, you have to decide
which is the officially sanctioned path (i.e. the path that's not going to
disappear tomorrow). It just occurred to me to check $PATH for
redundancies; it turns out that /bin is redundant. It's a symbolic link to
/usr/bin.
Norman Yarvin yarvin-norman at cs.yale.edu
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