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From: rusty@weyl.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: naming of x programs
Message-ID: <1126@cartan.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Fri, 17-Apr-87 20:36:15 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 17 20:36:15 1987
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In article <1623@hplabsc.UUCP> mayer@hplabsc.UUCP (Niels Mayer) writes:
>I think we should continue prefixing all x-based programs with an 'x'.
>It's nice being able to walk up to a new system, do an 'ls
>/usr/bin/x*' and see which x programs are available. Of course you
>have to watch out for special 'xref' or 'xjesus' programs, where x
>stands for cross.
>
>Perhaps V11 programs should start with an X.
>
>-- Niels.

The 4.3bsd man command has a MANPATH environment variable which you
can set to a colon separated list of directories to search for manual
pages in.  What I have is /usr/local/x, /usr/local/x/bin, and
/usr/local/x/man and /usr/local/x/man has man1, man3, man6, and man8
(along with the cat? dirs).  In my .login file MANPATH has
/usr/local/x/man added to it and $path has /usr/local/x/bin added to
it.

I prefer to split things apart rather than have /usr/bin become some
huge fishbowl with god-knows-what in it.  Embedding junk in the name
of a file when you can use the name of a directory is silly.  There
are a lot of advantages to having things split apart instead of lumped
together.

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	rusty c. wright
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