mw.uci@Rand-Relay@sri-unix (12/08/82)
From: Mark Wadsworth <mw.uci@Rand-Relay> Date: 3 Dec 82 0:09:41-PST (Fri) What does the rc stand for in .cshrc, .mailrc, etc?
preece (12/09/82)
#R:sri-unix:-473400:uicsl:12500001:000:160 uicsl!preece Dec 9 07:06:00 1982 What we need now is net.unix.hist for the exploration of the history of Unix (tm). Somebody out there must know what virtually all those odd names represent.
mjb (12/10/82)
I hate to be the purveyor of boring news, but the rc stands for "run commands". I guess lately it has come to mean any file that contains info used to set options for program xxx at startup, not necessarily commands.
gwyn@Brl@sri-unix (12/13/82)
From: Doug Gwyn <gwyn@Brl> Date: 9 Dec 82 16:39:14-EST (Thu) rc stands for RunCom.