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- ~4Dgifts/toolbox/src/exampleCode/irix/uucpVadmin README
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- inst images and src for uucpVadmin subtree
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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.
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- In addition to providing a GUI for the UUCP files, this tool also
- assists in setting up a modem.
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- 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.).
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- 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).
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- 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.
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- Chris Carlson
- carlson@sgi.com
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