Chris Hedemark on Tue, 28 Jan 2003 19:41:15 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] directory conventions 


On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 07:24 PM, William H. Magill wrote:

Some go so far as to claim -- if it doesn't respond to "man hier" it's not "really" Unix. (hier is the description of the "Standard file system hierarchy"). 

FWIW, OS X has this.  An excerpt:

HIER(7) System Miscellaneous Information Manual HIER(7)

NAME
     hier - layout of filesystems

DESCRIPTION
     A sketch of the filesystem hierarchy.

     /             root directory of the filesystem
[snip]

[gambusia:~] chrish% uname -a
Darwin gambusia 6.3 Darwin Kernel Version 6.3: Sat Dec 14 03:11:25 PST 2002; root:xnu/xnu-344.23.obj~4/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
[gambusia:~] chrish%

But I'm sure you already knew that, William.

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