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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:08:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: Marcel Telka <marcel AT telka DOT sk>
cc: ZF Tang <zf_tang AT hotmail DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: a newbie's question about directory
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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:
<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC57>.
	Igor
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