From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: crossd@gmail.com (Dan Cross) Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 15:30:24 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Again about etymology: rc In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: They stand for, "run-com" as in "run commands": This was the name for a scripting facility in, I believe, CTSS. On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Rocky Hotas wrote: > Hello everyone, > I am Rocky and this is my first message. Before starting, I would like to > thank you for all the valuable informations and stories you post here. > About the History of Unix, I was wondering with another guy why the rc > script has that name. As many of you already know, and according to NetBSD, > FreeBSD, OpenBSD (current) manual, > > "The rc utility is the command script which controls" the startup of > various services, "and is invoked by init(8)" (from DESCRIPTION). > "The rc command appeared in 4.0BSD" (from HISTORY). > > Words may slightly change between the three distributions, but the meaning > and the informations provided are the same. So, the etymology of rc does > not appear in the man pages. Do you know how to recover it? Do (or did) the > letters rc have some meaning in this context? > Cheers, > > Rocky > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: