car@ramecs.UUCP (Chris Rende) (04/01/91)
[ I'm looking for things that I can safely remove from my 3b1 harddrive... ] What are the files in /etc/convert for? RENAMED expanddesc* getprogram* offupdate* uaconvert* SPECIAL* formconvert* inittabconv* profconvert* convbydiff* getdevices* instuaconvert* rcconvert* convert* getdevid* masterconvert* saveoldver* crontabconv* getmissing* namesysconv* splitmaster* car. -- Christopher A. Rende Central Cartage (Nixdorf/Pyramid/SysVR2/BSD4.3) uunet!edsews!rphroy!trux!car Multics,DTSS,Unix,Shortwave,Scanners,UnixPC/3B1 trux!car@uunet.uu.net Minix 1.2,PC/XT,Mac+,TRS-80 Model I,1802 ELF trux!ramecs!car "I don't ever remember forgetting anything." - Chris Rende
dnichols@ceilidh.beartrack.com (DoN Nichols) (04/02/91)
In article <311@ramecs.UUCP> car@ramecs.UUCP (Chris Rende) writes: >[ I'm looking for things that I can safely remove from my 3b1 harddrive... ] > >What are the files in /etc/convert for? > [ ... ] They are for converting from an earlier version of the os (I think maybe 3.0) to 3.50 or 3.51. I think that the information is in there, and that most or all of these are shell scripts .... O.K. some of them are binaries, but most are scripts, and convert, from internal evidence, converts a system from 3.0 to 3.51. The only reason for keeping this now, might be for hysterical rasins :-) They look totally expendable, but keep the distribution disks, just in case. Good Luck DoN. -- Donald Nichols (DoN.) | Voice (Days): (703) 664-1585 D&D Data | Voice (Eves): (703) 938-4564 Disclaimer: from here - None | Email: <dnichols@ceilidh.beartrack.com> --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero ---