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Date:      Tue, 14 May 1996 19:18:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Tony Harverson <tony2@hornet.netac.co.za>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Upgrading 2.1R to 2.2SNAP - /stand ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960514191709.7911D-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199605142022.WAA01818@hornet.netac.co.za>

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On Tue, 14 May 1996, Tony Harverson wrote:

> I have just successfully completed a remote upgrade of a 2.1R box to a SNAP-960501
> box by unpacking the Binary Distribution and the manual and Documentation distribs
> onto the box and removing and then replacing the old directories.  The notable
> absence in the new distrib, however, was the /stand directory.  Is this just a result
> of having done the upgrade in an unusual manner,  or has the /stand directory been
> removed from 2.2 ?

It was because of the goofy way you upgraded.  Stand is a wierd bird in 
itself -- it's a giant linked binary.  Try doing 'ls -l' in it sometime.  
Odd that most of the files are 802816 bytes and the others are 456940 
bytes.  :-)

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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