>> On that note, does /stand see much use?  Just curious ;o)
>
>not a great amount of it right now, no.
>
>personally, I think that's more of a bug than a feature, at least on
>some architectures where it would be easy to have useful standalone
>programs.

# man hier | grep stand
     /stand/    programs used in a standalone environment

...which is funny, since (almost) everything i've ever needed in a
"standalone" environment has been in /bin and /sbin.  so far.  i still
wanna add netcat to the install/rescue floppies...  :)

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