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From: "ZF Tang" <zf_tang AT hotmail DOT com>
Subject: a newbie's question about directory
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:27:47 +0800
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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 ?




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