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From: rwhite@nu3b2.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: rc
Message-ID: <752@nu3b2.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 20-Jun-87 04:03:44 EDT
Article-I.D.: nu3b2.752
Posted: Sat Jun 20 04:03:44 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 21-Jun-87 04:08:30 EDT
References: <1665@umn-cs.UUCP>
Organization: National University, San Diego
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Summary: rc definition.

In article <1665@umn-cs.UUCP>, luttinen@umn-cs.UUCP (Jim Luttinen) writes:
> Cd stands for change directory, ls stands for lists, vi stands for visual,
> but what does rc stand for?  As used in .newsrc, /etc/rc, .cshrc, etcrc.
> 
> 				Jim Luttinen

It may be a stupid guess, but my minimal investigation of the subject has
seggusted "run control" or "run-state control" as the definition for
rc.

Even if this guess is wrong, it SOUNDS good.


Robert.

Disclaimer:  My mind is so fragmented by random excursions into a
	wilderness of abstractions and incipient ideas that the
	practical purposes of the moment are often submerged in
	my consciousness and I don't know what I'm doing.
		[my employers cirtanily have no idea]