Mike Tripp wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 MT> Hello Roy!

 MT> 19 Oct 03 04:19, Roy J. Tellason wrote to Michael Grant:

 RT> I'm beginning to wonder if this /var/whatever stuff is nailed down.
 RT> That's certainly not where *I* tend to put executable or data files...

 RT> And FWIW,  "etc" is not strictly a linux (or unix) thingy.  My OS/2
 RT> boxes have them in there too,  someplace.

 MT> Usually in those TCP/IP-related apps that were ported over from
 MT> *nix... 

Now that you mention it,  yeah.  

I seem to remember an /etc/services file,  for one example.

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