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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: Vendors Considered Evil (Re: Perl use over NFS)
- Message-ID: <p9gnpb8@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 00:55:14 GMT
- References: <1992Aug27.180847.15448@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> <1992Aug28.145234.17625@news.eng.convex.com> <1992Aug28.155801.14501@sei.cmu.edu> <1992Aug28.180137.22861@ra.msstate.edu> <1992Aug28.183918.22664@sei.cmu.edu> <9224419.3248@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
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- In <9224419.3248@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> zs@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Zoltan Somogyi) writes:
- | kochmar@sei.cmu.edu (John Kochmar) writes:
- | >You've gotta be kidding, right? You're not advocating that perl be
- | >placed in /usr/bin so that scripts you pick up from who-knows-where
- | >will run without modification, right?
- |
- | No, that's not why you want it.
- |
- | I am regularly using several machines from several vendors. On all these
- | machines except one, my home directory is NFS mounted, so that I see the
- | same files when I log in. I have a ~/bin/sgi subdirectory, a ~/bin/sun4 etc,
- | as well as a ~/bin/scripts. Whatever I put into ~/bin/scripts should work
- | the same on every machine. This is true for scripts whose interpreters
- | are in known standard locations, such as /bin/sh and /bin/awk*. It does
- | not work if different machines put perl in different directories. Instead,
- | I have to make several copies of the script and put them in ~/bin/<arch>,
- | with the usual double maintenance problem if I ever need to fix or enhance
- | the script.
- |
- | *: actually, for reasons best known to themselved SGI put awk in /usr/local/bin,
- | causing this very problem.
-
- No, SGI has *never* shipped anything with awk in /usr/local/bin. If
- it is there, you or some other user put it there. We may do things
- our own way at times, but we certainly are not that crazy!
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- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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