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From: R!ch <richardt@clem>
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Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 15:20:10 +0100
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On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Christopher Eltschka wrote:

> Steve Hathaway wrote:
> 
> [..]
> 
> >   /bin
> >   /sbin
> >   /usr/bin
> >   /usr/sbin
> 
> bin is binaries. But sbin?

sbin == Statically (linked) binaries.

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R!ch

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