Re: /usr/bin or /usr/gnu

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From: Michael I Bushnell
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1992 04:12

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In article <9204011959.AA16123@wubios> david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) writes:

   In some remote future system, someone may find /usr/bin empty and
   decide to make it a symbolic link to /usr/gnu.  -David-

In GNU, all the binaries will be in /bin, with filesystem magic used
to get the actual images on various disks as you like.  

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