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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp
Subject: System V introduces yet another inconsistency
Message-ID: <454@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 28-Feb-85 12:12:34 EST
Article-I.D.: lsuc.454
Posted: Thu Feb 28 12:12:34 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 28-Feb-85 13:51:39 EST
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Since time immemorial (well, a few years anyway), the public
directory for shipping files to a remote system (normally
/usr/spool/uucppublic) has been user "uucp"'s home directory.
In other words,    uucp file site!~uucp/file     works.

I tried this the other day with a site we talk to which is
trying to follow the System V "standard". Lo and behold, the
System V standard has "uucp" as a normal user whose home
directory is /usr/lib/uucp, and the uucico login is "nuucp".

Great. Why couldn't they leave well enough alone? Now, before
I transfer anything to/from a remote site's public directory,
I have to find out whether it's ~uucp or ~nuucp. (Or else
use /usr/spool/uucppublic and hope they haven't chosen to put
the public directory elsewhere.)

Dave Sherman
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