Dear t Now I remember: 'somwhere somewhat i heard about this acronym' was actually this thing that you once told me. Something like 'resource configuration' was working within me, when i first sent the mail. dipankar das
On Tuesday 17 February 2004 00:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > dipankar das writes: > > Sorry to disturb you that time: got the answer for 'rc' from Eric > > Raymond's jargon from linuxfaqs.org: > > > > [Unix: from runcom files on the CTSS system 1962-63, via the startup > > script > > that's strange. i always thought (and was going to write that when this > mail arrived) that rc stood for "resource", since rc files contain > configuration resources for various apps. dunno where i got the idea. maybe > this is one of those cases of "false etymology" which we find so often in > the study of language. > > > - t. > -- > cogito, ergo es > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
