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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: csant@csant.info, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] dir tree Qs
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:41:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e4e9ea21d106243b41dfb07d29bcfca9@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.tefvaxd8d84skq@fiore.malebolge>

i think it's a holdover from research unix. "network."

- erik

On Thu Aug 17 12:39:22 CDT 2006, csant@csant.info wrote:
> > rog@vitanuova.com wrote:
> >>> /n is remote servers. /mnt/is local.
> >>   /mnt/term ?
> >
> > yeah, I think that is a tenuous claim (/mnt vs. /n)
> >
> > I always figured it was that stuff in /mnt was supposed to be in /mnt,  
> > otherwise if it was in /n, it was supposed to be in /n?
> 
> 	/n/dump
> is yet another one confusing me. If /mnt stands for "mount", what does /n  
> stand for?
> /c


  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-17 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-17 13:15 cej
2006-08-17 13:53 ` erik quanstrom
2006-08-17 14:08   ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-08-17 14:33     ` erik quanstrom
2006-08-17 14:57       ` rog
2006-08-17 16:05         ` jmk
2006-08-17 16:08           ` John Floren
2006-08-17 16:10           ` erik quanstrom
2006-08-17 17:05             ` csant
2006-08-17 17:08               ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-08-17 17:10                 ` rog
2006-08-17 17:22                   ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-08-17 17:28                     ` erik quanstrom
2006-08-17 17:38                     ` csant
2006-08-17 17:41                       ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2006-08-17 17:44                       ` rog
2006-08-17 18:56                         ` Iruatã Souza
2006-08-17 19:29                           ` Charles Forsyth
2006-08-17 19:42                             ` Iruatã Souza
2006-08-17 20:07                             ` rog
2006-08-17 17:34                   ` Re: " Skip Tavakkolian
2006-08-17 17:39                     ` csant
2006-08-17 17:42                       ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-08-17 17:44                         ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-08-17 17:45                   ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-08-17 18:17               ` Charles Forsyth
2006-08-17 18:40                 ` Russ Cox
2006-08-17 20:54                 ` csant
2006-08-29  4:27   ` cej

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