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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: purpose of /stand ???
Date: 4 May 1996 21:26:52 GMT
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mi@aldan.algebra.com (Mikhail Teterin) wrote:

> =As you already suspect, /stand stands for "standalone".  These programs are
> =used at installation time.
> 
> What are the pros and cons of using them regularly?

Fallback.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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