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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:58:42 +0100
From: Marcel Telka <marcel AT telka DOT sk>
To: ZF Tang <zf_tang AT hotmail DOT com>
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: a newbie's question about directory
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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

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