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- From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
- Subject: Re: What is lacking in UNIX? (Re: UNIVEL MUST BE KIDDING!!!!!)
- Message-ID: <sheldon.725577934@pv141b.vincent.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <1992Dec28.044317.21507@xenitec.on.ca> <sheldon.725555076@pv141b.vincent.iastate.edu> <BzzGts.4oM@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 21:25:34 GMT
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- In <BzzGts.4oM@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
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- >In article <sheldon.725555076@pv141b.vincent.iastate.edu> sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon) writes:
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- >> Of course the next thing which annoys me is stupid dumb idiotic commercial
- >>software that wants to install in C:\foo, and only C:\foo. Why can't I use
- >>the directories of my PC and install in C:\utils\foo?
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- >Why is this more annoying than the fact that /usr/lib/uucp has to be
- >where it is, or that uucp always receives under /usr/spool, or that
- >certain things have to live under /etc?
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- Because it's in /usr/lib/uucp, rather than /uucp, or /usr/spool, rather
- than /spool.
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- I just kind of hate these root directories with 100 different directories
- within them. Seems rather unorganized...
-
- Ok, so I kind of prefer structured directory trees.
-
- Like why don't windows programs go into a directory within C:\windows?
- like c:\windows\bin\amipro, for instance...
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- Amipro's a bad example, it has a proper installation program.
- --
- sheldon@iastate.edu Steve Sheldon
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