Excerpts from mail: 13-Sep-93 Re: Any interest in an AFS .. Peter
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> The real problem we find with 3rd party software is installation into
> AFS. Patent "do everything" scripts usually make silly assumptions
> about filesystems, the worst being that they assume that if it's not
> local, it must be NFS.
> [...]
> E.g.
> Don't assume that filenames can't exceed 32 characters. (Yes, really!)
> Don't assume that the directories where I install the files will be one
> from which they're visible to the user.
> [...]
Don't forget the most annoying, most frequent, and most easily fixed:
Don't assume I MUST be root in order to do the installation (Yes, really! :^)
-Jim
Jim Sullivan [ The future ain't what it used to be ]
National Institutes of Health
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