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From: ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: A question...
Message-ID: <8835@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 29 Apr 89 18:13:51 GMT
References: <3768@sdsu.UUCP> <45842@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Sender: Ali T. Ozer <ali@polya.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <45842@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> J Greely writes:
>In article <3768@sdsu.UUCP> dave@sdsu.UUCP writes:
>>  Where is all of the documentation stored ... ?
>Mostly, it's not.  Under 0.8, what on-line documentation has been
>provided is in /bootdisk/Library/Documentation/*.  The file system
>changes under 0.9, so I don't know where it'll be then.  Rumor has it
>that quite a bit more of the documentation will be online in 0.9.

0.9 comes with a great deal more documentation, and you will be able
to find it in /NextLibrary/Documentation. 0.9 file system structure is
considerably different than that in 0.8; for instance apps now live in
/NextApps rather than /MyDisk/NeXT/Apps. A typical / will contain,
besides the standard Unix /usr, /tmp/, /etc, etc:
  /NextApps       (NeXT-distributed and supported apps)
  /NextDeveloper  (Demos, Examples)
  /NextLibrary    (Docs, various support files, literature, etc)
  /LocalApps      (Local system wide apps)
  /LocalLibrary   (Local system wide docs, literature, etc)
  /me, /joe, etc  (User accounts)

Each home directory also has ~/Library and ~/Apps, which parallel /NextApps
and /NextLibrary. Search path for most things (apps, sounds, fonts, 
documentation), goes first to user's home, then to /LocalXXX, and 
finally to /NextXXX. 

There's also a user preference that lets you turn off the display of
/usr, /tmp, etc in the / directory. This gives you a much cleaner view
of the file system in the browser. (Just the above directories and 
the user homes.)

Ali Ozer, NeXT Developer Support
aozer@NeXT.com