[net.general] net.general

gill (08/21/82)

...rc as far back as I can remember stod for "run com" as in a
file with shell commands to be run. The only "official" rc file
those days was /etc/rc, the going-multi-user runcom file. Then
came the ".profile," which was a run com for each user to
be run as he logged in.

Now I guess it means lots of different things. The .mailrc is
the list of commands for mail to execute when it starts up while
.cshrc is the same for the C shell.

Pace Willisson here thinks he heard someone say this all started in
the CTSS days.

	I never liked the "runcom" word, but can't think of anything
that better describes its function (perhaps "startup?", but some
runcoms were for doing non start-up tasks).

	Gill Pratt

	...alice!gill OR gill@mc

merg@bunker.UUCP (Jim Stephenson) (01/13/84)

Hi,
	Does anybody know of any implimentations of smalltalk for Unix?

				Thanks,
				Andrew T. Rodnite
				Mergenthaler Linotype
				201 Old Country Rd.
				Melville, New York 11747
				(516) 673-4318
				ittvax!bunker!mergvax!rodnite
				ittvax!bunker!merg
				ittvax!bunker!mergvax!mergee!andy

nathanm@hp-pcd.UUCP (06/01/84)

Olympics tickets?  Want ads?  Ride offerings?  Path querys?

net.general is CHOKING!  I can't remember the last time I saw
a posting in net.general that didn't really belong elsewhere.
Are there suddenly bunches of new users who don't know better?
PLEASE, people, study up on netiquette.  Despite my earlier
complaint about those who send unnecessarily nasty notes to
perpetrators (which netted me some interesting hate mail), I
certainly realize how bad the problem has become.

This group travels throughout the USA, Canada, Europe and Australia.
It is (or was) the most widely read group of them all because
it is meant for general interest items.  Selling Olympics tickets
is not general interest.  Want ads are not general interest.
There's a place for such notices, and net.general ain't it.
There is net.wanted, net.travel, net.net-people, to name a few.
There is net.flame for notes such as this, but I am trying to
reach maximal offenders with minimal effort.

Please, THINK before you post!  net.news.group publishes a
semimonthly list of active newsgroups and their topics --
study up.

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Nathan Meyers
hp-pcd!nathanm