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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!news1.best.com!nntp2.ba.best.com!not-for-mail From: Michael Hogsett <mcgrude@hogsoft.com> Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list? Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 19:42:46 -0700 Organization: http://www.hogsoft.com/people/mcgrude Lines: 16 Message-ID: <339627A6.5B80@hogsoft.com> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <337A003F.6A7B@ncofsi.com> <3378D37F.462F3A47@gaijin.com> <5lcjee$g4i$1@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> <5lclfo$597$1@news.ececs.uc.edu> <sejaflxyhnp.fsf@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <337A4444.1B61@agcs.com> <NEWTNews.863735492.21085.Steve@oem030.oem.state.or.us> <33956A6B.3A5FF275@physik.tu-muenchen.de> Reply-To: mcgrude@hogsoft.com NNTP-Posting-Host: hogsoft.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au gnu.misc.discuss:31636 comp.unix.solaris:108633 comp.unix.shell:45710 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3499 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42396 comp.os.linux.x:63480 comp.os.linux.misc:178784 Christopher Eltschka wrote: > > Steve Hathaway wrote: > > [..] > > > /bin > > /sbin > > /usr/bin > > /usr/sbin > > bin is binaries. But sbin? > strange binaries? :-) > > [...] I have always thought of it as S(ystem) Bin(aries)