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From: balglaas@xs4all.nl ()
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things
Date: 4 Dec 1996 11:49:33 GMT
Organization: XS4ALL, networking for the masses
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Also, something I'm curious about, what is behind the naming of '/etc'?

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  Jan van den Broek       -----_____   In remembrance of Eustachius Warszebald
  balglaas@xs4all.nl                -----_____  Herdenkt Eustachius Warszebald
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