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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!cs.ubc.ca!anvil.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca!not-for-mail From: h5h1@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Markus Meister) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: What is the /stand directory? Date: 14 Jan 1995 02:28:47 -0800 Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 16 Message-ID: <3f890vINN1f2@anvil.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: anvil.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca Greetings. This may be a silly question, but what is the purpose of the /stand directory and the files in it? Also, why are most of the files there (I believe ALL the binary files) reported to have a huge size, like this excerpt of the output from ls -l: -rwxrwxr-x 55 root bin 1224704 Dec 4 09:54 sed* -rwxrwxr-x 55 root bin 1224704 Dec 4 09:54 sh* -rwxrwxr-x 55 root bin 1224704 Dec 4 09:54 sh-* -rwxrwxr-x 55 root bin 1224704 Dec 4 09:54 slattach* -rwxrwxr-x 55 root bin 1224704 Dec 4 09:54 sleep* Sorry if these are silly questions; if this is in a FAQ somewhere, please point me to it. I couldn't find the info. -Markus