Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!mimsy!jds From: jds@mimsy.umd.edu (James da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: 1.5.5 upgrade question (directory structure) Message-ID: <22973@mimsy.umd.edu> Date: 8 Mar 90 05:55:54 GMT References: <807@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> <748@augean.OZ> Reply-To: jds@cs.umd.edu (James da Silva) Organization: University of Maryland, Department of Computer Science Lines: 28 In article <748@augean.OZ> cagney@chook.ua.oz (Andrew Cagney - aka Noid,285,5585,3362395) writes: >From article <807@ns-mx.uiowa.edu>, by williams@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Kent >Williams): >>I started unpacking the 1.5.5 distribution that came over the net. There >>is a file IBM_00.uue, and an ibm_00.uue. IBM_00.uue contains files >>associated with the ~src/lib/ibm directory, but ibm_00.uue contains files >>that were associated with ~src/commands. Why -- is there a change in >>official directory structure we need to know about. Looks like lib/ibm is now lib/IBM, and stuff from usr/lib is in Lib. Also, some things from commands moved to commands/ibm. I've resigned myself to looking at the crc list carefully to find such moves (this isn't the first time things have shuffled around!). >in "1.5.5 Introduction and crcs" <5914@star.cs.vu.nl> Andy Tanenbaum writes: > These are the crcs of the collected files. I am going to group them > together to reduce the number of postings. IBM is commands/ibm, to which > some files have been moved. >mind you it is near the end of the message after all the crc's. Is this a case >of `Read The Nice Carefully Worded Introductory Upgrade Posting' :-) Carefully Worded perhaps, but also Backwards: the IBM shar file (IBM_00) contains lib/IBM files, and ibm_0[01] contain commands/ibm files. Jaime ........................................................................... : domain: jds@cs.umd.edu James da Silva : path: uunet!mimsy!jds Systems Design & Analysis Group