Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cs.yale.edu!Anselmo-Ed From: Anselmo-Ed@cs.yale.edu (Ed Anselmo) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Stupid man pages Message-ID: Date: 12 Jun 90 00:15:00 GMT References: <1990Jun8.162656.14993@nbc1.ge.com> <25367@cs.yale.edu> <3450@auspex.auspex.com> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158 Lines: 20 In-reply-to: guy@auspex.auspex.com's message of 11 Jun 90 21:33:13 GMT >>>>> On 11 Jun 90 21:33:13 GMT, guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) said: >%ls -l /usr/include | more >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 19 May 31 10:00 /usr/include -> /server/usr/include/ >% > >and then have to try again with /server/usr/include. Guy> Who's "they"? Sun sure didn't do anything like that, at least Guy> not in 4.0[.x]; "/usr/include" is just a boring old directory. 'Twas the honest, loyal, trustworthy and under-appreciated Yale CS computing facility that inflicted that upon the local community. Seems the powers that be wanted 32MB of swap, 30MB of home directories, plus / and /usr, all on a 105MB internal drive on a SS-1. Well, it wasn't meant to be, and we had to play symlink games in /usr to get "most" things to fit and have the rest symlinked to a server directory. -- Ed Anselmo anselmo-ed@cs.yale.edu {harvard,decvax}!yale!anselmo-ed