Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 12:36:12 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: roelof@eboa.com (Roelof Osinga) Cc: jdp@polstra.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVSup: a newbie's tale. Message-ID: <199903121736.MAA00927@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <36E94884.978847CB@eboa.com> from Roelof Osinga at "Mar 12, 99 06:01:56 pm"
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Roelof Osinga wrote, > John Polstra wrote: > > > > I'm sorry, but I disagree with that proposal. In Unix it has always > > been understood that "the name" of a file means "whatever it takes to > > reference it from your current working directory." (For that matter, > > the same assumption holds even under DOS or Windows.) That's assumed > > in all of the manual pages -- see cat(1) or ls(1), for example. > > I love it when they fight back ;). Granted in so far we're talking > about just any ol' file. But we're not. At this stage (in the manual > as well as the process) we are configuring. As such we're dealing with > configuration files. You know... the things Unix traditionally > stores in /etc <g>. The archetypical /etc/rc springs to mind. Heck, > even DOS and its GUI Windows expect their configutation files to > be at well-known locations like the root of the C disk or in the > Windows installation directory. In that it is indeed just like Unix, > for does not even X look for its configuration files in well-known > locations? You might have an argument if the supfile was a configuration file that was referenced by default when no command line argument is presented. HOWEVER, the supfile argument is _required_ on the command line. Since it is always specified, defining a default location for it seems extraneous and unnecessary. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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