From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] A prick into the wasps' nest ;-) From: Geoff Collyer Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 16:55:59 -0700 In-Reply-To: <049b01c44e7b$a9ffbcf0$9b7f7d50@SOMA> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9ac15bfe-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Right, rc is an abbreviation of runcom, which in turn comes from CTSS. http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/part1/section-3.html has a longer explanation.