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From: tprodin@ford.com (Timothy R Prodin)
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: 4 Jun 1997 14:22:18 GMT
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Christopher Eltschka  <celtschk@physik.tu-muenchen.de> wrote:
>Steve Hathaway wrote:
>>   /bin
>>   /sbin

>bin is binaries. But sbin?
>strange binaries? :-)

Its either Stand-alone BINaries; or Single user BINaries.  The sbin
directory contains programs needed to start a system in multi-user
mode.  (init, mount, ifconfig, sh, sync, swapadd, etc.)