Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cbneb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!cbosgd!cbscc!cbneb!adm From: adm@cbneb.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Assorted bins and libs, why? - (nf) Message-ID: <740@cbneb.UUCP> Date: Tue, 1-May-84 14:20:45 EDT Article-I.D.: cbneb.740 Posted: Tue May 1 14:20:45 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 2-May-84 06:26:28 EDT Sender: adm@cbneb.UUCP Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OHIO Lines: 9 #R:hocda:-41500:cbnap:27400002:000:293 cbnap!whp Apr 26 09:31:00 1984 Another consideration is that if the /bin directory were too large, it would take unix a very (i.e., annoying) long time to search the directory. The split between /bin and /usr/bin is supposed to be that /usr/bin holds those commands needed in a multiuser environment, and /bin has the rest.