[net.unix] 4.2 uucp SUBDIRS ordering?

wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok) (02/24/85)

The order of the specification of the SUBDIRS in 4.2 uucp is important in the
the character string pointer array "prefix" in the file subdir.c.  The creation,
modification, or access times of these directories is irrelevant.
-- 
Bill Sebok			Princeton University, Astrophysics
{allegra,akgua,burl,cbosgd,decvax,ihnp4,noao,princeton,vax135}!astrovax!wls

trt@rti-sel.UUCP (Tom Truscott) (02/26/85)

One of the last things Bob Gray and I did to the uucp in 4.2 BSD
was clean up the Makefile and add some morsels of documentation.
One feature that did not quite make it was
	make mvspoolfiles
which moved spool files into the appropriate subdirectories.
The code would have been something like
             cd /usr/spool/uucp
             for i in  D.`uuname -l`X D.`uuname -l` D. X. TM. STST.
             do
                     mv $i?* $i
             done
The order of the directories was crucial, hence the warning.
We could never quite get it to work just right (e.g. empty directories)
so 'mvspoolfiles' disappeared, leaving only a scar behind.
	Tom Truscott