cpc@AMES-NAS.ARPA (Chuck Collins) (03/29/85)
OK, I know what "grep" stands for, and I even know about "dsw". Someone
asked me last week what the "rc" in .cshrc (and /etc/rc and .mailrc
and .exrc etc.) and I didn't know.
If anyone else has any favorite obscure acronyms (preferably with etymology)
mail then to me and I'll post the collection.
Chuck Collins cpc@ames-nas {ihnp4,hplabs}!ames!amelia!cpcgwyn@Brl-Vld.ARPA (VLD/VMB) (03/29/85)
"rc" stands for "RunCom", i.e. Command to Run a packaged job. The name was inherited from other operating systems (probably including GCOS), and is not terribly interesting. This is another of these topics that generates far more mail than it is worth (including this note, I suppose). Please do NOT rehash this worn-out topic yet another time! Thanks.
sitze@rruxo.UUCP (R Sitze) (04/02/85)
> "rc" stands for "RunCom", i.e. Command to Run a packaged job. > This is another of these topics that generates far more mail > than it is worth (including this note, I suppose). Please > do NOT rehash this worn-out topic yet another time! Thanks. You're welcome but... SOME of us are new here, and we would like to know some of these interesting little tidbits of info. Should we not be taught something just because it was discussed last year??? Come on now.. if you don't want rehashes of "old" info, prehaps a solution to the problem should be found. Strike at the heart of the problem rather than the inoccent bystander. I know somethings have been done to alleviate the problems, but obviously it still isn't working perfectly. Thanx for letting me blab that out. <ras>
ss@wanginst.UUCP (Sid Shapiro) (04/04/85)
> Come on now.. if you don't want rehashes of > "old" info, prehaps a solution to the problem should be found. A solution HAS certainly been found - it is called net.announce.newusers . However, with the version of news that we run (2.10.2) we had to mess with it so that the default and mandatory newsgroups for new users had net.announce.newusers included in the list, and BEFORE any other group - even any local groups. This, of course, means that the first set of messages that any new news user sees are the welcome, etiquette, frequently asked questions, etc. ones. Of course if the user doesn't read them, then whose fault is it? (I am not implying that <ras> might have ignored reading such a message.) I strongly recommend that all news administrators arrange things in a similar manner. Unless, of course, someone has a better idea, since I frequently don't know what the heck I am talking about. Cheers, -- Sid Shapiro -- Wang Institute of Graduate Studies [apollo, bbncca, ucadmus, decvax, linus, masscomp]!wanginst!ss ss%wang-inst@Csnet-Relay.ARPA (617)649-9731
rpw3@redwood.UUCP (Rob Warnock) (04/05/85)
+--------------- | > "rc" stands for "RunCom", i.e. Command to Run a packaged job. | > ...do NOT rehash this worn-out topic yet another time! Thanks. | You're welcome but... SOME of us are new here, and we would | like to know some of these interesting little tidbits of info. +--------------- (*sigh*) Yes, you're new, and that is NOT a crime. (Even *I* was new once... ;-} ) The "crime" is that your news administrator (or if you are the news administrator at your site, the admin at the site which feeds you) did not tell you about the newsgroup "net.announce.newusers", in which EVERY MONTH are RE-posted articles with just such "useful tidbits", including one called "Frequently Asked Questions..." which just happens to have the answer to the "rc" question. Several people put a lot of work into creating and updating the new user info. After reading it, if you feel something wasn't explained well enough, try sending them (mark, chuq, spaf, etc.) mail with specific suggestions for improvement (not just negative criticism, please, they get enough of that!). Who knows? They may post YOUR version next month... Administrators should probably hand a printed paper copy of the "net.announce.newusers" stuff to each user on the system as part of assigning them a login I.D., but many (most?) don't. Repeat: This is NOT a flame [Note#1] at YOU. It IS a flame at your admin... [Note#1: Oddly enough, none of the "net.announce.newusers" stuff has a definition for "flame". (It means "rant & rave with strong opinion" -- approximately -- keep reading the net for more examples and subtleties.)] Rob Warnock Systems Architecture Consultant UUCP: {ihnp4,ucbvax!dual}!fortune!redwood!rpw3 DDD: (415)572-2607 USPS: 510 Trinidad Lane, Foster City, CA 94404