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Aucbvax.4910 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Mon Nov 2 12:05:02 1981 origin of rc files >From mo@LBL-UNIX Mon Nov 2 11:54:14 1981 I believe they originally came from the old V6 days when the various source directories all contained "rc" files. These were shell scripts meant to ReCompile or ReCreate the entire world, hence the name "rc". /etc/rc is named in a similar spirit because is basically puts the world together when coming up multi-user. While this is not ReCompiling, it is,in a sense, ReCreating. -Mike

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