Re: [expert] just wondering...

[Alex Flinsch]

At 10:39 PM 9/12/99 +0000, you wrote:
>Does anyone know where /etc got its name from? Curiously enough it isn't
>mentioned in the Jargon File. Maybe something like 'essential terminal
>configuration' files? Or 'essential termcaps'? 
>

>From the Latin "et cetera", which loosely translated means "all of the
other stuff I need, but always forget about". I suppose the modern American
English version is "junk drawer".

 
>"Never trust a Shoggoth!"

Generally very good advice....