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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Got My 2.1 CD! (Now What Do I Do?)
Date: 23 Dec 1995 14:27:29 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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wag@swl.msd.ray.com (William Gianopoulos {84718}) writes:
> Of particular curiosity, is exactly why
> there would be a /tmp directory on a read-only device!
This is so you could store temporary files forever. Like Jordan did
with mltex_mail.22975 on the 2.0.5R CD-ROM.
:-)
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cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)