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From: hdm@demon.net (Dominic Mitchell)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 14:33:25 GMT
Organization: Demon Internet Ltd.
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Earlier, Christopher Eltschka <celtschk@physik.tu-muenchen.de> wrote:
> Steve Hathaway wrote:
> 
> [..]
> 
> >   /bin
> >   /sbin
> >   /usr/bin
> >   /usr/sbin
> 
> bin is binaries. But sbin?
> strange binaries? :-)

I've come across several variations:

System Binaries
Static Binaries
Single-user Binaries

On balance, I'd probably go with "static".

-Dom
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