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To: =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
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From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
Subject: Re: /bin/chio: why in /bin ? 
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chio is not clearly machine dependent.  It talks to any SCSI media
changer device, just like mt works with any SCSI tape device.  

louie


> /bin not supposed to have machine-dependent stuff, /sbin exists for this
> purpose. chio is clearly machine-dependent.
> 
> -- 
> Andrey A. Chernov
> <ache@null.net>
> http://www.nagual.pp.ru/~ache/
>