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From: takakami@worldnet.att.net (Takafumi Kamiya)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: location of uucppublic directory
Date: 20 Jun 1996 03:41:04 GMT
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I was wondering.....

In FreeBSD, the uucppublic directory is located at
/var/spool/uucppublic

In System V, it is located at
/usr/spool/uucppublic

I thought /usr/spool/uucppublic was a defacto standard.  What are BSD users 
actually doing?  Create a link to /usr/spool/uucppulibc?  Otherwise, I have to 
know which OS the other end is using before I can uucp.  I have 3 unix boxes 
here at home and 3 more at work. It can get confusing if I am sending from 
machines to machines.

What is the motivation behind use of /var?