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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Re: Octal chmod status
- In-Reply-To: Tom Christiansen's message of Wed, 19 Aug 1992 14:30:59 GMT
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- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 22:04:11 GMT
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- Tom> == Tom Christiansen <Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>>
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- Tom> The bruhaha stems from having to install a hundred binaries on a
- Tom> hundred systems spanning a dozen different architectures.
- Tom> Programs that aren't self-contained are a major hassle.
-
- Think about this one for a moment, folks.
-
- In these days of multivendor distributed environments, it's not uncommon
- for your home directory to be mounted on VAXen, ULTRIX-running MIPSel,
- IBM RTs and RS6000s, NeXTs, Sun3s, Sun4s, Encore Multimaxen, and HP PAs.
-
- I recognized this fact long ago, and set up my "personal" executables in
- a two-pronged form:
-
- binary executables are in ~/bin.ARCH/*, where ARCH is usually handled by
- tcsh (which sets $HOSTTYPE). Right now all I have is ~/bin.sun4, since
- I stopped cross-mounting to the NeXT, but that's more an accident of
- acquisition than anything preplanned.
-
- non-binary executables, primarily perl scripts, are in ~/notbin, since
- they're "not binary". :) I can tar this up and haul it over to a new
- account without worrying about shared library revisions, binary
- compatibility, bytesexual perversions, or the thorny issues of differing
- /bin/sh implementations, as long as the other site has perl.
-
- (If it doesn't, bang goes a copy in ~/bin.ARCH until the system admins
- can compile it ;-)
-
- If I had an account on, say, MIT Athena, I'd have perl available across
- the board, and could keep one, not three, copies of my programs...
- --
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