22 Dec
2016
22 Dec
'16
8:27 a.m.
The Second Edition manual has a section titled "User Maintained
Programs" listing the following utilities and games: basic, bc, bj, cal,
chash, cre, das, dli, dpt, moo, ptx, tmg, and ttt. In the Introduction,
the reader is asked to consult their authors for more information.
Does anyone remember whether at the time these were installed in the
system-wide /bin directory, or whether they were only available in their
owners' home directories?
22 Dec
22 Dec
10:22 a.m.
Diomidis Spinellis <dds(a)aueb.gr> wrote:
Does anyone remember whether at the time these were
installed in the
system-wide /bin directory, or whether they were only available in their
owners' home directories?
From what I remember from a talk from Stephen Bourne at
a Sun user group
meeting in 1990, user maintained programs have been installed in
/usr/bin.
Stephen Bourne after some time wrote a cron job that checked whether an update
in a binary also resulted in an updated man page and otherwise removed the
binary. This is why these programs have man pages.
Jörg
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10:28 a.m.
2016-12-22 10:22 GMT+01:00 Joerg Schilling <schily(a)schily.net>:
Diomidis Spinellis <dds(a)aueb.gr> wrote:
Impressive. Everything has a reason, that's clear. A primitive but
more or less effective security measure for new software installations
:-)
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Does anyone remember whether at the time these
were installed in the
system-wide /bin directory, or whether they were only available in their
owners' home directories?
From what I remember from a talk from Stephen Bourne at a Sun user group
meeting in 1990, user maintained programs have been installed in /usr/bin.
Stephen Bourne after some time wrote a cron job that checked whether an update
in a binary also resulted in an updated man page and otherwise removed the
binary. This is why these programs have man pages.
Jörg
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EMail:joerg@schily.net (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin
joerg.schilling(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/
URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/
5:14 p.m.
On Thu, 22 Dec 2016, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Stephen Bourne after some time wrote a cron job that
checked whether an
update in a binary also resulted in an updated man page and otherwise
removed the binary. This is why these programs have man pages.
An effective way of enforcing compliance :-) I like it.
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suffer."
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