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The UUCP Vadmin tool is meant to provide a graphical user interface
(GUI) to set up the UUCP files. Since UUCP has a number of files that
inter-relate and affect each other, this tool should provide a better
understanding, when updating them, of what the complete effect is.
In addition to providing a GUI for the UUCP files, this tool also
assists in setting up a modem.
The UUCP Vadmin tool is provided in two forms on this CD. One form is
simply a directory containing the source, in precisely the same
configuration as the source is on my computer where it was written,
including all the related files (help text files, X resource files,
etc.).
The second form is an instable image. This is a form that SGI uses to
distribute software. It was generated using the software packaging
system that is also provided with this CD in utilities/sgihelp_dev (and
will be provided in future releases of IRIX).
The instable image contains the executable, dynamic shared objects and
other related files as well as all the source code. The advantage here
is that the program 'inst' knows where these files are to be placed,
creating subdirectories as needed and setting ownership and permission
flags as necessary. The source directory created, if the source is
extracted, is /usr/src/uucpVadmin. Note that all the files in the
source directory on the CD are not in the source directory created by
'inst'. This is because the missing files were placed in other
directories by 'inst'. For example, the UUCP file is placed in
/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults and the file UUCPHelpText is placed in
/usr/vadmin/uucp.
Chris Carlson
carlson@sgi.com
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