On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, xiamin wrote:

> you have no kernal. kern is a directory, and since i dont know the inner
> workings of unix i dont know what it does, but on my machine io have a

It's the kernel's directory.  It's fake, that is.  Basically, it's just
a mount point for the kernel's memory space, if I understand things right.
Similarly, proc contains a file that contains the entire memory space, I
believe, but I don't remember the specifics, and I'm on a MkLinux box
right now which does things a little differently.  :-)

Hope that... helps... or confuses... or... something....

Later,

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