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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!mindspring!usenet From: kpneal@pobox.com (Kevin P. Neal) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list? Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 02:07:42 GMT Organization: Bedroom Retrocomputing Lines: 22 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5lj3ti$1f6@camel4.mindspring.com> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <5l37jg$87j$1@wuff.mayn.de> <5l7jvt$q8b$10@halon.vggas.com> <33776BE4.6883@ford.com> <337C64F0.41C6@cs.ucc.ie> <337CAB5A.39460789@celsius.snafu.de> Reply-To: kpneal@pobox.com NNTP-Posting-Host: user-37kb9a8.dialup.mindspring.com X-Server-Date: 17 May 1997 02:07:46 GMT X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45086 comp.os.linux.misc:175726 comp.os.linux.x:61792 alt.os.linux:21257 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3287 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41078 gnu.misc.discuss:31330 comp.unix.solaris:106742 Martin Winken <martinwi@celsius.snafu.de> wrote: >> /usr = USeR ?? >I think that's right, but somewhere I read it stands for >Unix System Resources. I thought it used to be the user partition, with the user home directories. Then later binaries started being put there. Then it got out of hand, and home directories were moved out of it (and /var was created to enable /usr to be static). Correct me if I'm wrong. -- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Junior, Comp. Sci. - House of Retrocomputing XCOMM mailto:kpneal@pobox.com - http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/ XCOMM kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu Spoken by Keir Finlow-Bates: XCOMM "Good grief, I've just noticed I've typed in a rant. Sorry chaps!"