> From @mongo.pixar.com:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Nov 28 16:35:58 1995 > Old-Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 07:32:38 -0800 (PST) > From: Bill Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: convenience script for building a.out packages > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Scott Blachowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I agree. But, now you see that we have a script called /usr/bin/aout > > > and a potential directory called /usr/bin/aout. Hence my suggestion > > > that it ought to be called something else. with-aout perhaps. > >[...] > > Actually, I would argue that the _directory_ be someWHERE else. [...] > > Good point. From FSSTND 1.2, 3/28/95, section 3.1, para three: > > There should be no subdirectories within /bin. > > Given the intention of FSSTND compliance, this is an absolute > prohibition.
Well the FSSTND prohibit to have a subdirectiry within /bin, not within /usr/bin... they even give /usr/bin/X11 and /usr/bin/mh as directories for X11 and MH mail system binaries. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jean-Marc Bourguet Service d'Electronique Faculte polytechnique de Mons Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgique