Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "ZF Tang" Subject: a newbie's question about directory Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:27:47 +0800 Lines: 5 Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 159.226.60.7 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-IsSubscribed: yes Hi,all I'm a newbie to cygwin/linux/unix. Can somebody tell me what's the difference between the directories /bin, /usr/bin, and /usr/local/bin ? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/