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Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 16:53:23 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Heribert Slama <hslama AT datacomm DOT ch>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: How to configure /home /usr /etc ...?
In-Reply-To: <344e6f3f.9705412@news.datacomm.ch>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.971026165301.17911L-100000@is>
MIME-Version: 1.0

On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Heribert Slama wrote:

> I'm now confronted with Unix's directory concept (e.g. /~etc). There
> seems to be no introductory text, helping a DOS user to grasp the
> basics of the Unix file system and it's use of special directory
> names.

It is not clear from your message why do you need to know that.
AFAIK, nothing in DJGPP depends on having a Unix-like directory
structure on your machine.  Please explain why are you bothered by
this; having the explanation will probably help answer your question
in an efficient way.

(Btw, don't use "/~etc": it will usually fail, even on Unix.)

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