Stupid man pages

[Norman Yarvin]

Anselmo-Ed at cs.yale.edu (Ed Anselmo) writes:
>Most of the old paths still work (/usr/man, /usr/spool, /usr/adm), so
>most users don't notice the change.

Until they do something like 

%ls -l /usr/include | more
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root        19 May 31 10:00 /usr/include -> /server/usr/include/
%

and then have to try again with /server/usr/include.

It's no big deal, but these things add up.  With 590 symbolic links in /usr,
and 24 NFS mounts, learning where things are becomes like trying to find
your way around in Adventure.  Once you've found a file, you have to decide
which is the officially sanctioned path (i.e. the path that's not going to
disappear tomorrow).  It just occurred to me to check $PATH for
redundancies; it turns out that /bin is redundant.  It's a symbolic link to
/usr/bin.

	Norman Yarvin			yarvin-norman at cs.yale.edu
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