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Article #4435Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
From: Vibrating Bum-Faced Goats
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 00:00
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Curt Welch (curt@kcwc.com) wrote: : 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. My guess is to variable as well but variable in the sense that the stuff in there varies throughout the course of the day: log files, spools, etc. : As a quiz, how many people remember these directories, : what they were used for, and what their names mean. : /sys/dmr : /sys/ken Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie? -- Chris Russell | Bradford Bulls - Wembley 1997 Electronic Imaging Unit | University of Bradford | Tough on St.Helens TEL: +44 1274 385463 | Tough on the causes of St.Helens.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10eb3b,3d362ec564ebdcba X-Google-Attributes: gid10eb3b,public X-Google-Thread: 1103af,3d362ec564ebdcba X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: 1012a6,3d362ec564ebdcba X-Google-Attributes: gid1012a6,public X-Google-Thread: faa64,3d362ec564ebdcba X-Google-Attributes: gidfaa64,public X-Google-Thread: 11035d,3d362ec564ebdcba X-Google-Attributes: gid11035d,public X-Google-Thread: fa705,3d362ec564ebdcba X-Google-Attributes: gidfa705,public X-Google-Thread: f4bda,3d362ec564ebdcba X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,3d362ec564ebdcba X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: cgrussel@bradford.ac.uk (Vibrating Bum-Faced Goats) Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list? Date: 1997/05/20 Message-ID: <5lrrq9$98n@squire.cen.brad.ac.uk> X-Deja-AN: 242551345 References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <5l37jg$87j$1@wuff.mayn.de> <5l7jvt$q8b$10@halon.vggas.com> <33776BE4.6883@ford.com> <337C64F0.41C6@cs.ucc.ie> <gCIU$zd@NewsReader.Com> Followup-To: 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 Organization: University of Bradford 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