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to note the: rc in Unix mentioned by K&R in the article likely refers to '/etc/rc', which was a shell script run by init in research Unix (and still BSD,

by cat199 7y ago

to note the: rc in Unix mentioned by K&R in the article likely refers to '/etc/rc', which was a shell script run by init in research Unix (and still BSD, but not SysV)

cat199 7y ago
see also: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=init&sektion=8&apropos=0&manpath=Unix+Seventh+Edition for 'then', and: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc&sektion=8&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+12.0-RELEASE+and+Ports https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc&sektion=8&apropos=0&manpath=OpenBSD+6.5 for (some of) 'now'.