From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 12 9:36:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0538614DC0 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 09:36:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id MAA00927; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 12:36:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199903121736.MAA00927@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: CVSup: a newbie's tale. In-Reply-To: <36E94884.978847CB@eboa.com> from Roelof Osinga at "Mar 12, 99 06:01:56 pm" To: roelof@eboa.com (Roelof Osinga) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 12:36:12 -0500 (EST) Cc: jdp@polstra.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 . 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