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 Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:08:23 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Marcel Telka cc: ZF Tang , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: a newbie's question about directory In-Reply-To: <20041117095842.GA19926@tortuga.telka.sk> Message-ID: References: <20041117095842.GA19926@tortuga.telka.sk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Marcel Telka wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 04:27:47PM +0800, ZF Tang wrote: > > 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 ? > > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html With one teeny Cygwin-specific correction: . Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- 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/