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From: lda@bonnie.UUCP (Larry Auton)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp
Subject: Re: System V introduces yet another inconsistency
Message-ID: <424@bonnie.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 01:11:57 EST
Article-I.D.: bonnie.424
Posted: Fri Mar  1 01:11:57 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 1-Mar-85 09:54:26 EST
References: <454@lsuc.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany NJ
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in article <454@lsuc.UUCP>,  Dave Sherman complains about (paraphrased)

	~uucp being moved from /usr/spool/uucppublic to /usr/lib/uucp

Poor fellow.  There are very good reasons for not having home directories
that are writable by the world.  Better Security is the best reason.

(quote)
> ... 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.)

Awww.  You done got me started cryin' now.  Boo Hoo.  Why not use an
approach suggested by the uucp manual page ("manual?  what manual?  I
never seen no manual before!?") and send to:

	site!~/file

The null user name (~/) tells uucp to prepend PUBDIR (wherever that is,
you don't need to know) to the destination path.

"Gee!"
"No, UUCP!" (sniff, sniff)
-- 
Larry Auton
(201)386-4272
ihnp4!bonnie!lda