From: N8TM AT aol DOT com Subject: Re: Yet another GNU-Win32 website... 14 Aug 1998 06:40:45 -0700 Message-ID: <77bea958.35d3b8b7.cygnus.gnu-win32@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: fox AT cat DOT nyu DOT edu, pete AT horus DOT cix DOT co DOT uk Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In a message dated 8/13/98 11:54:01 AM Pacific Daylight Time, fox AT cat DOT nyu DOT edu writes: > > IMHO everyone /should/ have both /usr and /var (and /etc and > > /usr/local for that matter). A standard FS layout compatible with > > Unix/linux would be no bad thing... > > There seem to be two types of GNU-win32 users. Those who are trying > to make a Windows system more Unixy, and those who are trying to make > Unix software work under Windows. For the latter, the closer the > file system stays to the windows standard the better, Are we schizophrenic for wanting as much of both as we can get? What windows standard says we shouldn't have the /usr and /bin directories needed to make either of those wishes come true? - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".