From: lyndon@orthanc.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Subject: [TUHS] Understanding the /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin Split
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 13:05:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <944F79B5-F88C-42EF-A73D-10DDDE0F2987@orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000901cce373$fc2e2ad0$50651bac@naleco.com>
On 2012-02-04, at 11:34 AM, Pepe wrote:
> In SCO Xenix/UNIX, the home directory is usually mounted on /u.
>
> I was amused the first time I saw it.
The /u convention was a common site convention in at least the early 1980s. I don't recall a vendor using it as a default in any shipping system, though. Mind you, I have blissfully forgotten most of my follies with Xenix.
--lyndon
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2012-02-04 19:34 Pepe
2012-02-04 21:05 ` Lyndon Nerenberg [this message]
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2012-02-05 8:38 Hendrik Jan Thomassen
2012-02-05 10:13 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2012-02-05 17:15 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 23:16 Norman Wilson
2012-02-02 23:37 ` Carl Lowenstein
2012-02-02 23:58 ` John Cowan
2012-02-01 9:26 arnold
2012-02-02 13:35 ` Tim Bradshaw
2012-02-02 13:49 ` Larry McVoy
2012-01-31 19:16 A. P. Garcia
2012-01-31 19:27 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-01 11:12 ` Jose R. Valverde
2012-02-01 17:35 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 13:32 ` Random832
2012-02-02 17:24 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 17:36 ` John Cowan
2012-02-02 18:10 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 21:14 ` Dave Horsfall
2012-02-02 21:49 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 22:29 ` Tim Newsham
2012-02-02 22:47 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 22:59 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2012-02-02 23:33 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 22:53 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2012-02-02 23:35 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-03 11:10 ` Tim Bradshaw
2012-02-03 15:22 ` Jose R. Valverde
2012-02-03 16:06 ` Ronald Natalie
2012-02-03 16:09 ` Steve Nickolas
2012-02-02 17:40 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 18:02 ` Tim Newsham
2012-02-02 13:45 ` Tim Bradshaw
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