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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!swrinde!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: purpose of /stand ??? Date: 18 Apr 1996 02:47:28 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4l46vg$ar@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <31724B4D.41C67EA6@merlin.rockwell.cz> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] petr (petr@merlin.rockwell.cz) wrote: : Just simple question for someone informed: : what's the purpose of the /stand directory. Well, I can find : the brief explanation in hier (standalone execution), but what is the : standalone execustion in this case ? Does it mean single user mode ? : Moreover, looking at the size of the /stand files, I found them really : big comparing to files in /bin. : Can anyone explain this to me ??? These files are all linked to eachother. /stand is basically one big executable with lots of names. It checks its name to determine how to run. The idea is that a program capable of doing the job of 20 programs is less in size than the sum of the individual program sizes. It also has a rather big text segment that gets loaded once only (is this right?). As you already suspect, /stand stands for "standalone". These programs are used at installation time. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....