Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 09:38:13 GMT From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: nik@freebsd.org, kaj@raditex.se Subject: FW: doc/21057: Little correction of hier(8) Message-ID: <20000907.9381300@bartequi.ottodomain.org>
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Dear FreeBSD doc'ers, In my quest for the Holy Grail, ahem, for the origin of the /usr "acronym", I received the following letter from Chris Coleman: --------------------- Forwarded Message ------------------------- At the moment, I cannot recall where I got that tid bit of information. Regardless of whether it originally stood for "user" or not, calling it "User" would confuse new users.. Currently, the Unix System Resources live there and that is what it should be called. (IMHO) I may be alone in this definition, but that definition is at least 4 years old. I never questioned it. (Although, I may not be alone, because I have been propigating that definition for the last 3-4 years.) I found this definition in my searching, which may be more correct. Mount point for sharable user commands, libraries, and documentation. http://www.kelley.iu.edu/shyu/hpguide.html#files Still, I'd prefer to keep using the Unix System Resources as a good acronym to help people remember and distinguish between "user" files and "system" files. Feel Free to forward this to -doc if it helps any. Chris Coleman Daemon News http://www.daemonnews.org Bringing BSD together ------------------- End of Forwarded Message ------------------------- Best regards, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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