Hi list,
Not no off-topic, but a little unix history oriented question.
In hier(7) OpenBSD describe /usr as Contains the majority of user utilities
and applications.
In
http://www.usna.edu/Users/cs/delooze/teaching/IC221/Lectures/LN02/class02.html
they
say that /usr Stands for Unix System
On 05/01/10 15:52, Harrell wrote:
Hi list,
Not no off-topic, but a little unix history oriented question.
In hier(7) OpenBSD describe /usr as Contains the majority of user utilities
and applications.
In
http://www.usna.edu/Users/cs/delooze/teaching/IC221/Lectures/LN02/class02.html
they
say
On Sat, 1 May 2010 22:52:54 +0200 Harrell
elbibliotecarioci...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi list,
Not no off-topic, but a little unix history oriented question.
In hier(7) OpenBSD describe /usr as Contains the majority of user
utilities and applications.
In
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 10:52:54PM +0200, Harrell wrote:
So my doubt is: Is usr an abbreviation of user? If that is so (as as
Chapter 4 of Greg Lehey's Porting Unix Software
http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/PUS/
has the following to say about the /usr directory:
This directory used
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 10:52:54PM +0200, Harrell wrote:
Is usr an abbreviation of user? ... just for curiosity, what is
the origin of this directory name?
Your question has already been answered, but in case you are looking
for documentation, here's Dennis Ritchie (as in KR C)in the 1978
On Sat, 1 May 2010 20:23:50 -0400, Barry Miller wrote:
Yes, I know this is somewhat off-topic, but I think it's fascinating,
like, Why'd they call it 'awk'? Now there's an acronym for you.
Did you leave that as an exercise for the reader ?
It's too easy and, although I'm not spoiling the
On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 11:18:01AM +1000, Rod Whitworth spoke thusly:
On Sat, 1 May 2010 20:23:50 -0400, Barry Miller wrote:
Yes, I know this is somewhat off-topic, but I think it's fascinating,
like, Why'd they call it 'awk'? Now there's an acronym for you.
Did you leave that as an
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