From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 8 12:22:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D73DA37B59E for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 12:22:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 13MExU-000Ciw-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 20:22:40 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA21363 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 20:22:39 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 20:22:39 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: unix filesystem structure Message-ID: <20000808202239.A21332@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG is there any advantage to the unix filesystem structure, keeping all binaries together, all docs together, all config files together, etc, rather than the modern method of keeping all the parts of a given application together? jm -- i'm tired of signatures. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message