Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!sagpd1!monty
From: monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Moving directories
Message-ID: <363@sagpd1.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 89 16:48:25 GMT
References: <614@ivucsb.UUCP> <11651@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU>
Reply-To: monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine)
Organization: Scientific Atlanta, Government Products Div, San Diego, CA
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>In article <614@ivucsb.UUCP> ivucsb!dan@anise.acc.com (Dan Howell) writes:
>>
>>cd dir1
>>rename file /
>>rename dir2 /
>>cd /
>>delete dir1
>>
>>And voila, no more useless top level directory.  Try that on an IBM!
>>
>>(and by the way, I also noticed that you can do this on BSD Unix, but not
>>on Sys V!  Why would AT&T do this?  Are they trying to be IBM compatible? :-)
>
>Sys V requires you be Super User to mv directories.  Dunno why, it's
>a pain.

Thats funny, I just suspended news for a moment on my system V Unix system
and created a directory, moved up to its parent and then did a mv and it moved
it with no problem. True you can't move a directory unless you have the 
correct permission, but in a multi-user system you don't want just anyone
moving around the common directories so they are only accessable by the
superuser, not a pain but a protection.
    Unix is a bit obscure at times but most of the ragging it seems to
take is from people who THINK they can't do something so it becomes gospel.
    In short, as I have been told before, RTFM and get your facts straight
before you rag on ANY system, be it Amiga, Unix, IBM, Atari, etc. There is
not a perfect system out there (yet).

    Flame me via e-mail and don't tie up the net.

Monty

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