[Info-vax] Where to locate software

[Steven Schweda]

> Wherever you decide to put them, applications should live
> in a well defined directory structure of their own.

   I agree.  I normally put my UTILITY directory on the
system disk, because many of my systems have only one disk. 
I do try not to disturb SYS$SYSTEM and SYS$LIBRARY any more
than absolutely necessary.  Usually, that's not at all.

>    For example, around here, most executables are placed in a
> UTILITY directory:

   I put many executables in the top-level UTILITY directory,
but the source kits are situated lower in the tree, typically
in places like [UTILITY.SOURCE.product.version] or
[UTILITY.SOURCE.product-version], or similar, so, for
example, a Zip development kit might be found in
ALP$DKC0:[UTILITY.SOURCE.ZIP.zip31d04...].  Thus, executables
may be found for many program versions in the SOURCE tree,
but the top-level UTILITY directory normally has only the
latest+greatest executable.