luttinen@umn-cs.UUCP (06/19/87)
Cd stands for change directory, ls stands for lists, vi stands for visual, but what does rc stand for? As used in .newsrc, /etc/rc, .cshrc, etcrc. Jim Luttinen rutgers!meccts!umn-cs!luttinen luttinen@umn-cs.ARPA
rwhite@nu3b2.UUCP (06/20/87)
In article <1665@umn-cs.UUCP>, luttinen@umn-cs.UUCP (Jim Luttinen) writes: > Cd stands for change directory, ls stands for lists, vi stands for visual, > but what does rc stand for? As used in .newsrc, /etc/rc, .cshrc, etcrc. > > Jim Luttinen It may be a stupid guess, but my minimal investigation of the subject has seggusted "run control" or "run-state control" as the definition for rc. Even if this guess is wrong, it SOUNDS good. Robert. Disclaimer: My mind is so fragmented by random excursions into a wilderness of abstractions and incipient ideas that the practical purposes of the moment are often submerged in my consciousness and I don't know what I'm doing. [my employers cirtanily have no idea]