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- From: bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig)
- Subject: Re: Sumex is in need of a restucturing
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.041942.9805@netcom.com>
- Organization: Starfleet Headquarters: San Francisco
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 04:19:42 GMT
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- There are other problems with umich's directory structure:
-
- (1) It's too deep. I'm not crazy about the 'game' directory structure
- being broken down into 'space', 'arcade', 'adventure', and so forth,
- especially since most games fall under more than one category (where
- do you put an arcade-style space adventure?). Perhaps just a text
- directory file listing each games along with the 'classes' it falls
- under would be preferable.
-
- (2) The directory names are too long. On sumex, if I want to get into
- the control panel directory, I type "cd cp". On umich, if I want to
- get there, I type "cd system.extensions/cdev". This can get very
- annoying when I'm grabbing a lot of files, especially since I keep
- misspelling "extentions" instead.
-
- (3) The files frequently have no information about what they are on
- them. If I see a file with an interesting name, I have to download it
- to my Mac and unbinhex/unstuff it before I can find out what it is; if
- I grab a file from Sumex, I can just read the hqx file on my Unix
- machine before I download it to my Mac, saving me a lot of time if I
- decide I don't want it after all.
-
- Ideally, I'd like to see the people who run sumex and umich get
- together and make sure they each have all the latest versions of the
- same stuff; it's not like they're competing!
-
- --
- _/_/_/ Brian Kendig Je ne suis fait comme aucun
- /_/_/ bskendig@netcom.com de ceux que j'ai vus; j'ose croire
- _/_/ n'etre fait comme aucun de ceux qui existent.
- / Nolite te bastardes Si je ne vaux pas mieux, au moins je suis autre.
- / carborundorum. -- Rousseau
-