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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4
- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!Celestial.COM!bill
- From: bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
- Subject: Re: What is lacking in UNIX? (Re: UNIVEL MUST BE KIDDING!!!!!)
- Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:31:53 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.183153.7098@Celestial.COM>
- References: <1992Dec28.044317.21507@xenitec.on.ca> <sheldon.725555076@pv141b.vincent.iastate.edu> <BzzGts.4oM@chinet.chi.il.us>
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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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- One reason is the limitation on DOS PATH length.
-
- :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?
-
- One of the advantages of UNIX is that these things are in the
- same place on all systems (well mostly :-) and that I don't have
- to spend a day figuring out where it is on every system I work
- on. I can use symbolic links when I need to put something in a
- different file system, but I can still maintain the standard
- naming conventions.
-
- Bill
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