Re: [PLUG] directory conventions

[Tobias DiPasquale <toby@cbcg.net>]

On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 09:56, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> Let's do the next best thing and consult Brian Kernighan and Rob
> Pike's venerable "The Unix Programming Environment", published in
> in the Elder Days (1984).  On page 22 they write:
> 
>      On many systems, /usr is a directory that contains the
>      directories of all the normal users of the system.
> 
> Then on page 64, in a table entitled "Interesting Directories", they
> say that /usr is the "user file system" and show both system
> directories (/usr/include, /usr/bin, etc.) and user login directories
> (/usr/you) underneath it.

Well, that's as much an authority as one can ask for, so I guess this
issue is closed. Thanks Walt! :)

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