Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 08:52:48 -0600 (MDT)
From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: install on {Net,Open}BSD vs install on FreeBSD
Message-ID: <199609261452.IAA15890@rocky.mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199609252025.NAA06624@phaeton.artisoft.com>
References: <199609251839.MAA12703@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199609252025.NAA06624@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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> I suspect the NetBSD inclusion of the "-d" was for reasons of
> commercial product installation (such as license managers, which
> work over Garrett's theoretical objections), since they have
> SunOS ABI compatability in their SPARC port.
No, it was because they used it to build directories. It was done back
in the 0.8 days so that they didn't have.
foo:
mkdir foo
chown bin.bin foo
chmod 755 foo.
Nate
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