Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 10:38:01 -0800 From: "Joshua Lokken" <jolok@myrealbox.com> To: "Thomas Connolly" <tpconnolly@frii.com>, "'Johnson David'" <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com>, "'Peter'" <Peter1994@home.nl> Cc: <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Unix Freebsd Message-ID: <OAEGJMOGEKPEGCNHFDFFAEBJCDAA.jolok@myrealbox.com> In-Reply-To: <000a01c2d1fb$b0dc76b0$5608a8c0@ceesi.com>
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Thanks! Joshua > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Thomas Connolly > Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 10:31 AM > To: 'Johnson David'; 'Peter' > Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: Unix Freebsd > > > Here here! I agree with everything you said. > > Thomas P. Connolly > Senior Development Engineer > Colorado Engineering Experiment Station Inc. > Phone: (970) 897-2711 > Fax: (970) 897-2710 > Email: tconnolly@ceesi.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Johnson David > Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 11:24 AM > To: Peter > Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Unix Freebsd > > Peter wrote: > > Hello people, > > > > Maybe a stupid question but iam working lately on a > unixbased system.. > > 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] > comment this > > one as ETCetera... > > Is this true? > > 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. > > > And are the next ones true? BIN=Binairy USR=Unix Sytem Resources?? > > bin = "bin" as in executable binary, and not "bin" as in storage bin. > > usr = 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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