From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 16 09:51:39 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA29637 for current-outgoing; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 09:51:39 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA29626 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 09:51:36 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA01185; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 18:51:33 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id SAA02770 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 18:51:32 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA20762 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 18:25:25 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199507161625.SAA20762@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Move mt(1) to /bin? To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 18:25:25 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199507161239.FAA08384@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Jul 16, 95 05:39:40 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1047 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > Unless somebody objects, i would going to move it some day. > > I don't want to go doing this on a binary by binary as the need > comes up. There are several things that given the same above > conditions should be moved to /, and several that could move > the other way. Ok. NB: i've made the above threat since this seems to be the only way to get opinions from other folks here... This is not to say mt(1) wouldn't be needed, it is. While ``mt fsf'' could also be performed by ``dd if=/dev/nrst0 of=/dev/null'', things like ``mt blocksize'' and ``mt density'' cannot be emulated. > Also don't move things around with cvs remove/cvs add, contact me for > a repository copy, otherwise history information is lost into the Attic. Of course. I didn't think about doing this myself. I know that this is the kind of stuff to leave for our Repository Meister. ;-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)