From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: grawity@gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Mantas_Mikul=C4=97nas?=) Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 21:53:20 +0200 Subject: [TUHS] Again about etymology: rc In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The best reference on that might be < http://article.olduse.net/4857 at Aucbvax.UUCP>. (Though also – not sure what's that one about.) On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 9:20 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 > -- Mantas Mikulėnas -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: