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Date:      Wed, 11 Nov 1998 10:07:25 +0100
From:      sthaug@nethelp.no
To:        will@iki.fi
Cc:        jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Is it soup yet? :-)
Message-ID:  <10401.910775245@verdi.nethelp.no>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "11 Nov 1998 10:50:10 %2B0200"
References:  <863e7qbol9.fsf@not.oeno.com>

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> > 3. /usr/mdec is a silly-assed name.  Who thought of it?  What does it even
> 
> The mdec name certainly isn't FreeBSD-specific, changing it would add
> to the difficulty of finding things based on a "general knowledge" of
> Unix-like systems.

Has it:			FreeBSD, NetBSD, possibly OpenBSD.
Doesn't have it:	Solaris 2, HP-UX, Digital Unix, BSD/OS, RedHat 5.2

I'm afraid there isn't much "general" about /usr/mdec.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no

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