[1861] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: a.out linux-athena tarballs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Wed Oct 22 16:58:52 1997
To: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
Cc: nocturne@cygnus.com, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 22 Oct 1997 16:52:07 -0400
In-Reply-To: Salvatore Valente's message of Wed, 22 Oct 1997 16:04:32 -0400 (EDT)
I originally named this Attic and then renamed it. Perhaps we
should make a bunch of directories so it becomes
/mit/linux/packages/Attic/Do/Not/Use/Me/I/Am/Old/And/Crufty/...
Either that, or we should just completely nuke it, or at least:
fs sa system:anyuser none
-derek
Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
>
> Eric wrote:
>
> Did someone nuke the a.out athena tarballs that used to be in
> ~linux/[something]/do-not-use-me-i-am-old-and-crufty/ ?
>
> For what it's worth:
>
> 1. [something] is "packages".
>
> 2. I didn't like the name "do-not-use-me-blah-blah-blah" because it
> messed up my "ls" output and because it drew attention to a directory
> that should be ignored. I renamed it to "Attic".
>
> Anyway, /mit/linux/packages/Attic still contains the last set of elf
> packages for Slackware, but does not contain a.out packages. I don't
> know when they were erased.
>
> -Sal.
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