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From: norman@oclsc.org (Norman Wilson)
Subject: [TUHS] etymology of cron
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2016 18:14:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1451776452.16234.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> (raw)

Personally, I lean away from listing the nine billion debunked
names of cron.  It's like adding a disclaimer to cat(1) to
explain that cat just copies data to standard output, it doesn't
transform it or compute how long it would take to send the data
over UUCP.

But it probably shows that I have been trying to write a couple
of manual pages lately (for some personal stuff, plus some docs
for work that are not technically manual pages but deserve the
same sort of conciseness).

Maybe Wikipedia-page format should admit an optional BUGS section.

Norman Wilson
Toronto ON

PS: seriously, though I wouldn't bother including the debunking
text myself, save perhaps on the Talk page to encourage editors
to delete any future attempts to revive the un-names, I have no
problem with Grog doing it.  More power to him if he has the
energy!


             reply	other threads:[~2016-01-02 23:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-02 23:14 Norman Wilson [this message]
2016-01-02 23:18 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-01-13 20:31 Noel Chiappa
2016-01-03 14:26 Noel Chiappa
     [not found] <mailman.1.1451005554.3365.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2015-12-25 18:41 ` David
2015-12-25 20:46   ` Marc Rochkind
2015-12-25 22:22   ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-01-02 19:56     ` Marc Rochkind
2016-01-02 21:06       ` Clem Cole
2016-01-02 22:22       ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-01-03  1:26         ` Ronald Natalie
2016-01-03 10:30           ` Jacob Goense
2016-01-03 15:32             ` Ronald Natalie
2016-01-03 18:00               ` John Cowan
2016-01-03 12:10           ` Jacob Goense
2016-01-03 15:22             ` Ronald Natalie
2016-01-13 19:48               ` Jeremy C. Reed
2016-01-13 20:02                 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-01-04  2:26           ` Kurt H Maier
2015-12-23 17:19 Norman Wilson
2015-12-23 19:04 ` John Cowan
2015-12-23 19:41 ` SZIGETI Szabolcs
     [not found] <mailman.20.1450886678.3292.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2015-12-23 17:09 ` Johnny Billquist
2015-12-23 14:38 Noel Chiappa
2015-12-23 18:58 ` John Cowan
2015-12-23 13:36 Norman Wilson
2015-12-23 13:53 ` Clem Cole
2015-12-24 15:01   ` Clem Cole
2015-12-24 15:17     ` John Cowan
2015-12-24 23:05       ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-12-25  0:52         ` scj
2015-12-25  1:05           ` Larry McVoy
2015-12-25  2:07             ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-12-25  2:28               ` Dave Horsfall
2015-12-25 16:21           ` Marc Rochkind
2015-12-23 16:04 ` John Cowan
2015-12-23 23:49 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-12-23 13:30 Norman Wilson
2015-12-23  1:44 Norman Wilson
2015-12-23  2:07 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2015-12-23  2:19   ` Milo Velimirovic
2015-12-23  2:27     ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2015-12-23  2:36       ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-12-23  4:53 ` Larry McVoy
2015-12-23 13:45   ` Clem Cole
2015-12-23  0:27 Doug McIlroy
2015-12-23  0:40 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-12-23  1:11   ` John Cowan
2015-12-23  1:59     ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-12-23  2:01       ` David Ryskalczyk
2015-12-23  2:14         ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-12-23  2:32           ` jason-tuhs
2015-12-23  2:44             ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2015-12-23  2:59             ` John Cowan
2015-12-23  4:05               ` Random832
2015-12-23  4:27                 ` John Cowan
2015-12-23  0:46 ` Warren Toomey
2015-12-23  6:47 ` Dave Horsfall

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