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- From: gwlester@cpu.com (Gerald W. Lester)
- Subject: Re: TCL3.0 installation lack
- Nntp-Posting-Host: captainhook.cpu.com
- References: <1992Dec31.235704.15177@twg.com>
- Sender: usenet@cpu.com (Usenet administrator)
- Organization: Computerized Processes Unlimited, Metairie, LA, (504)-889-2784
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 01:43:42 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.014342.11682@cpu.com>
- Reply-To: gwlester@cpu.com
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- In article <1992Dec31.235704.15177@twg.com>, "David Herron" <david@twg.com> writes:
- >
- >The bin directory is set to /usr/local .. Almost every site I'm familiar
- >with uses /usr/local/bin and the only one I know which doesn't was afflicted
- >with a mind-virus (meme) from Berkeley which arrived along with 4.2BSD.
- >As I recall something in the distribution suggested installing new commands
- >in /usr/local. But as the list of new commands grew, some needed `lib'
- >or `include' files and having commands and directories mixed at the same
- >place in the directory tree became messy.
- >
- >Unfortunately, at that site it was too firmly ingrained before we noticed
- >it being a problem and we weren't able to change it.
- >
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- We have our tcl stuff in /usr/var/misc/bin (also in /usr/var/misc/lib
- et al). With our home grown stuff in /usr/var/cpu/...
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