der Mouse wrote:
>> For example, newer BSDs (and perhaps GNU even more so) seem to regard
>> typing longer paths as enjoyable: /usr/man -> /usr/share/man,
>> /usr/pub/ascii -> /usr/share/misc/ascii...
> 
> I don't know of anyone (possibly aside from you) who thinks those
> changes were made because of the enjoyment they bring to people typing
> them.  And as for the first of your examples - how often do you type
> that path (whatever it may be on your flavour of Unix), anyway?
> 
> If you want to shorten paths, consider doing away with /usr (which has
> long outlived its original purpose, several times over) before you
> consider removing the "share" from "/usr/share" (which arose for good
> reasons involving servers serving heterogenous client populations).
> 

I note that on recent versions of Solaris, /bin is a symlink to /usr/bin
and /lib is a symlink to /usr/lib. It looks like Sun have got things the
wrong way round ... there again /usr in a typical Solaris install is
full of historical cruft.

Chris