Chris writes:
> I downloaded the mover file and uncompressed it. By default it tried to put
> the files in /LPSTOOLS/PUB/RAMUSAGE and /LPSTOOLS/HELP/RAMUSAGE -- which
> oddly enough it seemed to do- at least I didn't get an error, though LISTF
> didn't see them. So I says, :NEWACCT LPSTOOLS,MGR and I tries it again!
...
> Hmmm. Where did the .HELP file go? Thought I'd build a HELP group and try
> it again, just to be sure:
>
> :newgroup help.lpstools
> Duplicate name in directory. (CIERR 906)
...
> ---Ah ha says I. There is a HELP "directory"? shouldn't that qualify as an
> MPE group???
...
> Well, there's the file. That was simple/straightforward...not!
 
Fascinating...maybe we should ask MOVER to be enhanced to note what type
of directory the first two absolute POSIX names are, so that when I create
a MOVER package by doing:
    mover -c RAMUSAGE.M  /LPSTOOLS/PUB/RAMUSAGE /LPSTOOLS/HELP/RAMUSAGE
it would record the fact that /LPSTOOLS is an account, not just an hfs
directory, and that /LPSTOOLS/PUB and /LPSTOOLS/HELP are groups, not
just hfs directories ... otherwise you run into the problem Chris
found!
 
The first version of RAMUSAGE I put out there lacked the HELP file, so
I did a MOVER of it in relative form, which meant that there was no problem
unpacking it :(
 
I could either leave it the way it is (possibly adding a README file to the
MOVER package), or change the name of the help file to something like
RAMUSAGH and ask the user to rename it.
 
 
 
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