From: utzoo!decvax!yale-com!brunix!mjb
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: .xxxrc
Article-I.D.: brunix.1094
Posted: Fri Dec 10 14:12:57 1982
Received: Sat Dec 11 03:01:07 1982
References: sri-unix.4734

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.