>Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 13:38:35 GMT
>From: Ralf Fassel <ralf_at_natlab.research.philips.com>
>It's a nightmare to straighten out things if you ever have to upgrade.
Exactly. And most of it was due to some "...PATH" environment variable
not being set correctly. In all fairness, though, I must admit that our
sysadmin did a brilliant job of getting our heterogeneous network of
sun3's, sun4's, and decstations all talking to each other. And we have
some semi-amazing dot files that allow us to do anything (almost) on any
machine. He was really jammed-up for time, and took a lot of short
cuts. We bought a mix of workstations because our management was
familiar with Unix already, and they were convinced that "Unix is Unix".
Hoo boy.
It's always better to find out why it doesn't work on one's system (if
you can) to start fiddling around with the system directories. Not only
does it make a nightmare of upgrades, but it can create a situation
where the wrong versions of some other files are found because after
awhile the file tree starts to become short-circuited by all the short
cuts.
Not to knock the original poster. I would have done what he suggested,
actually. :-)
tw
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Received on Wed Mar 13 1996 - 08:17:55 GMT