Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Mark Delaney
Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 00:00

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Curt Welch wrote:

> I've never known for sure
> what /var was - it came many many years later.  I've
> always thought it meant variable i.e. the stuff that would
> change from one system to the next on a network of
> systems with shared filesystems.

I once heard that /var was for variable stuff that needed to be
backed-up regually, ie it changes from day to day.

With this, the /usr only needed to be backed-up when you installed
something new.

Mark...

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From: Mark Delaney <M.N.Delaney@bton.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/19
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