Re: Strange /usr/bin file

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On 02/11/08 09:33, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:19:49 -0500
"Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This should be in an FAQ somewhere. I see it about once a year.
Presumably the OP has just started in Lenny or he would have seen it
in Etch, Sarge, Woody, Potato... Probably back to either 4.3 BSD or
the origional UNIX.

I guess it just depends on whether you need to use it or not. I've
been using Linux of various flavours for about seven years and never
even noticed this command before this post! :o)

I first noticed it back in the Mandrake 7.0 days. Year 2002, or
maybe 2001. Freaked me out, too.

Ah well...

/me wonders just how much more he has to learn before he thinks that he
knows a reasonable amount about Linux...

Very few people are true, complete *ix gurus anymore...


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