Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!apple!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: Interactive UNIX 2.2 (really V.3 and V.4) Message-ID: <:TY39EE@xds13.ferranti.com> Date: 6 Jun 90 14:31:25 GMT References: <7820@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <40800013@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu> <1242@wet.UUCP> <1990May31.051750.27155@ico.isc.com> <1067@sixhub.UUCP> <+CX3CVG@xds13.ferranti.com> <1094@sixhub.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 23 In article <1067@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes: | I want symbolic links, so I can put /usr/lib/news and /usr/spool/news | in one filesystem by itself. In article <+CX3CVG@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > It's dead-easy to do this anyway. I have /work1/news/lib and > /work1/news/spool. Both B and C news let you put your lib and spool > directories *anywhere*. In article <1094@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes: | Not what I said... I don't want to run my directories elsewhere and | hack all the news software plus all the utilities I have inhereted and | written, etc. It doesn't require "hacking". Every program I've ever seen that does anything with news has a pretty complete set of #defines and config questions for this purpose. I've never had to edit one ".c" file to get a program to deal with my directory structure. Not that symbolic links aren't incredibly useful, but they're not as vital as everyone seems to think. And since V.4 is going to be a while yet, at least as a stable system, it's worth-while going to a bit of effort to do without. -- `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. 'U` Have you hugged your wolf today? @FIN Dirty words: Zhghnyyl erphefvir vayvar shapgvbaf.