Re: convenience script for building a.out packages

[Bill Mitchell <mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com>]

Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com> said:

> Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > I agree.  But, now you see that we have a script called /usr/bin/aout
> > and a potential directory called /usr/bin/aout.  Hence my suggestion
> > that it ought to be called something else.  with-aout perhaps.
>[...]
> Actually, I would argue that the _directory_ be someWHERE else.  [...]

Good point.  From FSSTND 1.2, 3/28/95, section 3.1, para three:

  There should be no subdirectories within /bin.

Given the intention of FSSTND compliance, this is an absolute
prohibition.