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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!chi-news.cic.net!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!news.inet.tele.dk!not-for-mail From: Peter Dalgaard BSA <p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk> 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: 04 Jun 1997 17:01:31 +0200 Organization: Little, if any Lines: 25 Message-ID: <x2k9kabees.fsf@bush.kubism.ku.dk> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <337A003F.6A7B@ncofsi.com> <3378D37F.462F3A47@gaijin.com> <5lcjee$g4i$1@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> <5lclfo$597$1@news.ececs.uc.edu> <sejaflxyhnp.fsf@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <337A4444.1B61@agcs.com> <NEWTNews.863735492.21085.Steve@oem030.oem.state.or.us> <33956A6B.3A5FF275@physik.tu-muenchen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: stat.kubism.ku.dk X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au gnu.misc.discuss:31622 comp.unix.solaris:108570 comp.unix.shell:45688 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3492 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42335 comp.os.linux.x:63404 comp.os.linux.misc:178649 Christopher Eltschka <celtschk@physik.tu-muenchen.de> writes: > Steve Hathaway wrote: > > [..] > > > /bin > > /sbin > > /usr/bin > > /usr/sbin > > bin is binaries. But sbin? > strange binaries? :-) System binaries. Not (usually) executed by mortals. The ones in /sbin were *static*ally linked binaries in SunOS 4.1.x, which I suspect is the true origin of "sbin". (You had to get certain things set up before you could NFS mount /usr which contained the shared libraries ...) -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907