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A comment on First Edition Unix Manual 'Miscellaneous' Section (1971) [pdf].

Re:First Edition Unix Manual 'Miscellaneous' Section (1971) ... by technothrasher on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @06:55AM (#28455386)
They have binary and library files in /etc. This bothers my sense of order! Not that modern filesystem layouts don't disagree with me in many places also.
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Re:First Edition Unix Manual 'Miscellaneous' Section (1971) ... by trasz on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @06:59AM (#28455399)
Modern Unix file system layout come later, with (4.2?) BSD.
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Re:First Edition Unix Manual 'Miscellaneous' Section (1971) ... by technothrasher on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @07:02AM (#28455412)
Yeah, my sense of what is "right" is stuck in Sunos 4.x, as that is what I learned on.
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Re:First Edition Unix Manual 'Miscellaneous' Section (1971) ... by h2odragon on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @09:59AM (#28457073) 

    /etc/rmt
As i barely recall... It annoyed me too, then.
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