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From: Josh Lynch <theron@tyme.visi.com>
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Subject: /stand directory
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I'm fairly new to BSD based systems (coming from SCO & Linux which I consider
more SVR4 than *BSD) I have a few general ,simple questions:

1. Why are most binaries in the system mutiples of 512bytes? Is this because
the filesystem is based on disk blocks (of 512k)?
2. What are all the files in the /stand for/do, they seem awful big and are
all the same size, which is kind of odd. (to me anyway :-) )
3. Where could I find out more about the booting process (sysconfig, rc.*, init
, etc..) I know SVR4 pretty well, but can't seem to get a good conceptual grasp
on *BSD based booting.
4. Is the 4.4BSD documentation set (5 books) any good? 

Thanks very much for any help.

josh

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