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To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
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Subject: Re: /bin/chio: why in /bin ? 
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On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Louis A. Mamakos wrote:

> > I ask to move chio to /sbin already long time ago, but in vain...
> 
> Why move it?  mt is in /usr/bin/mt and is used by other than just
> system admin people to do tape stuff.  chio is in /bin/chio, and is
> used by those same people.

/bin not supposed to have machine-dependent stuff, /sbin exists for this
purpose. chio is clearly machine-dependent.

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Andrey A. Chernov
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