Date: 05 Sep 2000 16:44:30 +0200 From: Rasmus Kaj <kaj@raditex.se> To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Rasmus Kaj <kaj@raditex.se> Subject: Re: docs/21057: Little correction of hier(8) Message-ID: <84n1hmgapd.fsf@frodo.sickla.raditex.se> In-Reply-To: Nik Clayton's message of "Tue, 5 Sep 2000 06:50:02 -0700 (PDT)" References: <200009051350.GAA66575@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>>>>> "NC" == Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG> writes: NC> On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 02:30:20AM -0700, enderle@mdn.de wrote: >> My you add a note to hier(8), that /usr comes from unix system resources >> not from user? NC> I've always wondered what 'usr' stood for. Do you have a cite for that NC> definition? According to FOLDOC [1], the "user" explanation is the correct one. Seems sane to me, as the "unix system resourses" (such as /kernel, /dev, /bin, /etc) lives outside /usr ... Might the case be that "Unix System Resources" is an afterconstruction? Or is it just so unknown that even FOLDOC has it wrong? 1 http://ftp.sunet.se/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=usr -- Rasmus Kaj ------------------------ rasmus@kaj.se - http://Raditex.se/~kaj/ \ Science is what happens when preconception meets verification \----------------------------------------------------- http://Raditex.se/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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