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From: ken@rochester.UUCP
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Subject: Re: naming of x programs
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Date: Sat, 18-Apr-87 02:22:44 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr 18 02:22:44 1987
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Reply-To: ken@rochester.UUCP (Ken Yap)
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|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.

But not everybody runs BSD.

|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.

I agree, but local situations may differ. Here our binaries are split
according to whether the programs are standard distribution,
"officially" (i.e. staff) supported or user-contributed.

I agree that we should not automatically prepend x to every name.  It
hasn't bothered me that much though.

	Ken