Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:32:56 -0400 From: "Steve Ward" <planet36@gmail.com> Message-ID: <f5c1222c0809262032s148beb9w92fa38209bb4cdaa@mail.gmail.com> | Why is the file "yearistype.sh" in tzdata*.tar.gz instead of tzcode*.tar.gz | (where it is used)? Because it is effectively data, it is used by the tzdata files, and changes in sync with those. | What is the purpose of copying "yearistype.sh" to "yearistype" during make? The data files want something called yearistype not yearistype.sh - the original has the .sh because it is written as a sh script. It could be re-written in C, perl, python, ruby, .... The "executable" still needs to be yearistype but there could be different implementations of that in different languages. kre