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[Fairlight]

Y'all catch dis heeyah?  J. P. Radley been jivin' 'bout like:
> Steven Waters propounded (on Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 08:13:33AM -0800):
> | G day,
> | I am on a backup SCO server playing around with the install.
> | I am doing an upgrade from the FP.gz downloaded file.
> | The install backs up with the #. 
> | What other # backup files or directories are there?
> 
> You have a 'find' command -- use it.

Considering they should all be in the appl directory, 'ls' seems like less
overkill.

> | Can I delete the old fp_version directories?
> 
> Why not?

That little thing called, "...rolling back in a hurry if/when something
goes wrong with a new version."

> | Is there a way to install to the plain old fp directory?
> 
> What difference does it make to you that /appl/fp is now a symlink?

Not having to shift things about very much.  The only system I've used that
doesn't honour `ln -sf` is Solaris (and I still haven't tracked down -why-
it insists on bailing with "file exists" even when you use -f).  However,
on all other systems on which I've worked, it's nice to be able to switch
versions with a single command rather than shuffling directories over
multiple commands.

It's called -efficient- administration.

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