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From: iiitac@uk.ac.swan.pyr (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux
Message-ID: <1994Jun10.163216.16781@uk.ac.swan.pyr>
Organization: Swansea University College
References: <Cr5uCG.BMB@rex.uokhsc.edu> <1994Jun10.095736.5367@uk.ac.swan.pyr> <1994Jun10.150054.25448@cm.cf.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 16:32:16 GMT
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In article <1994Jun10.150054.25448@cm.cf.ac.uk> paul@myrddin.isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul) writes:
>Are files in different places in different releases? I'd find that
>extremely annoying. It irritates me enough to remember where ping
>is on FreeBSD, SunOS, ULTRIX and OSF. If things were in a different
>place for the same OS depending on where I got it from I think I'd
>start smashing up my machines :-)
>
The FSSTND team defined a standard that says where everything is. There are
some changes in hand I think for iBCS2 to make it compatible with the intel
standard for people running Oracle and Wordperfect etc

Alan