From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Feb 11 13:11: 7 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AAD737B401 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 13:11:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.hccnet.nl (smtp.hccnet.nl [62.251.0.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A25943FA3 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 13:11:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from duiker@haggis.nl) Received: from zeus by smtp.hccnet.nl via fia148-72.dsl.hccnet.nl [62.251.72.148] with ESMTP for id h1BLAnqP021351 (8.12.5/2.00); Tue, 11 Feb 2003 22:10:52 +0100 (MET) From: "Colin J. Raven" To: Subject: RE: Unix Freebsd Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 22:08:43 +0100 Message-ID: <001601c2d211$c2899a30$1500000a@scrk.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 In-Reply-To: <3E494615.1000805@motorola.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Damn, that's clever. I never thought of that...(seriously!! I'm really *not* being sarcastic) What kind of a mind do you have?? Awesome and creepy at the same time :-) -Colin On February 11th 2003 at 19:56 CET Charles S. Libby said; =20 +> One of the possible acronyms used for etc is +> E =3D Extended +> T =3D Tool +> C =3D Chest +>=20 +> Just one thought. +> Charles +> >>Peter wrote: +> >> =20 +> >> +> >>>Hello people, +> >>> +> >>>Maybe a stupid question but iam working lately on a +> >>> =20 +> >>> +> >>unixbased system.. +> >> =20 +> >> +> >>>and i am learning the skills... +> >>>At mine work we have a discussion about the names of the folders +> >>>especially one folder; ETC.. lot of books [internetfiles] +> >>> =20 +> >>> +> >>comment this +> >> =20 +> >> +> >>>one as ETCetera... +> >>>Is this true? +> >>> =20 +> >>> +> >>I'm sure there's a real acronym in there somewhere, but I prefer to +> >>think of it as simply "etcetera". I've been using UNIX for +> >>twenty years, +> >>and no one has set me straight yet. +> >> +> >> =20 +> >> +> >>>And are the next ones true? BIN=3DBinairy USR=3DUnix Sytem=20 +> Resources?? +> >>> =20 +> >>> +> >>bin =3D "bin" as in executable binary, and not "bin" as in=20 +> storage bin. +> >> +> >>usr =3D short for "user", at least that's how I always viewed it. = I'm +> >>probably wrong, but old habits die hard. It makes sense, because +> >>software that is meant for the multiple users (either end users or +> >>sysadmins) are stored in /usr somewhere, unless they are +> >>needed at boot +> >>time or in single user mode. +> >> +> >>In the long run, these names mean whatever you want them to mean. +> >> +> >>David +>=20 +>=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message