From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] Again about etymology: rc
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 17:59:04 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1603241756110.15730@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-e0dd3f63-baa1-4c8c-9a96-128bdb17f897-1458760805118@3capp-mailcom-lxa01>
On Wed, 23 Mar 2016, Rocky Hotas wrote:
> 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?
"Run Commands."
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-23 19:20 Rocky Hotas
2016-03-23 19:30 ` Dan Cross
2016-03-23 19:38 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2016-03-23 19:53 ` Mantas Mikulėnas
2016-03-23 19:57 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-03-23 21:14 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2016-03-24 9:59 ` Rocky Hotas
2016-03-24 6:59 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2016-03-25 1:19 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-23 22:06 Noel Chiappa
2016-03-24 0:09 ` Clem Cole
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