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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: pathalias
Message-ID: <3317@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 8 May 90 17:25:31 GMT
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>On a related note, why does HP place the maintenance commands and
>daemons in section 1m while BSD and Sun use section 8? Is Section 8 a
>BSD-ism, or did it exist in the V7 UNIX docs? If section 8 existed in
>the V7 manual, then is 1m a Sys{3,5}-ism or an HP-ism,

System III-ism or System V-ism; I no longer remember when AT&T decided
to change it.

>and what was the rationale behind changing 8 to 1m?

Dunno.  "Rationale" includes the substring "rational"; I'm not sure
there was any reasoning involved.  (Consider the fact that in AT&T's
documentation, "termio" is in the *Administrator's* manual, not the
*Programmer's* manual, which is completely stupid.)