Re: Great SWT Program

On Nov 13, 6:01 am, blm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <blm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Exaggeration for effect again (grep'ing the filesystem is rarely
necessary, as the files that need to be modified are usually
mentioned in a command or application's documentation).

Their names, perhaps. But you may not know where they are.

No, usually what's mentioned is a full path name [*], sufficient to
tell you exactly where the file in question can be found. Why
would it be otherwise?

*A* full path name, yes, but the file isn't necessarily actually
there. I seem to recall seeing the same file located in various
different places on different systems of unix heritage, often
dependent on a) free/open/netBSD/Linux/other, b) what distro (if
applicable), and c) where things were manually selected to be
installed. So if the man page for foobar says that futz.config is in
\usr\somesuch don't be so sure it's not in usr\local\somesuch, var
\somesuch, or any of a trillion other places instead.

I remember this sort of thing also happening in the other direction: a
file already exists in some place and you install an RPM or some such
(modulo whatever the system uses for package management) and whatever-
it-is won't work out of the box because it's looking somewhere else
for that file until manually reconfigured.

And it's not mutually exclusive with having a nice well-behaved tool
for configuring those settings either.

True. It's just that in practice, the "nice well-behaved tool"
doesn't tell you where it's putting things. It *could*, but
usually it *doesn't*.

But it *could*.
.

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