[TUHS] Again about etymology: rc

Mantas Mikulėnas grawity at gmail.com
Thu Mar 24 05:53:20 AEST 2016


The best reference on that might be <
http://article.olduse.net/4857@Aucbvax.UUCP>.

(Though also <http://article.olduse.net/203@brl-bmd.UUCP> – not sure what's
that one about.)

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 9:20 PM, Rocky Hotas <rockyhotas at post.com> 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
>



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Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity at gmail.com>
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