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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: installation images directory table of contents
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.085855.12538@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
- From: graeme@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz ( Graeme Moffat)
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 08:58:55 GMT
- References: <1993Jan6.182557.28955@mail.cornell.edu>
- Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand.
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- len@gibbon.cornell.edu () writes:
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- >My install server now has 579 program products and updates -- apparently
- >this is more than the developers of installp planned for.
- >From this menu, my AIX 3.2 install server presents over 2200 lines of
- >program product and update information, sorted in essentially random order.
- >The order is roughly derived from the order in the table of contents
- >file .toc, built by the inutoc command. Apparently, inutoc reads
- >the directory /usr/sys/inst.images in its actual random order and build its
- >.toc file in the reverse of the order it finds.
-
- Ever considered dividing them up into subdirectories? And discarding all the
- "superceded" ones?
-
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- Graeme Moffat g.moffat@aukuni.ac.nz \ Time wastes us all,
- Computer Aided Design Centre, Fax: +64-9-366-0702 / our bodies & our wits
- School of Engineering, Ph: +64-9-737-999 x8384 / But we waste time,
- University of Auckland, Private Bag, Auckland, NZ \ so time & we are quits
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