From: lka@physic.ut.ee (Andres Heinloo) Subject: Re: Standard Directory Trees ? 13 Nov 1998 09:21:21 -0800 Message-ID: References: <3.0.3.16.19981111220658.18ffb1e0@exmachina.net> Reply-To: Andres Heinloo Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: John Mullee Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, John Mullee wrote: > Being new to un*x in general, I probably have more trouble than most > figuring out where things should be; > I also experience confusion when installing other people's software > who different paths for different things; > > I wonder if some kind of consensus might be reached vis-à-vis > recommended or default paths, as it strikes me that just > saying 'create a /tmp directory' after installing > is not really enough to get people started. Take a look at Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ Andres. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".