What does rc stand for?

[Robert Felps]

In <5375 at tellab5.tellabs.com> lab at tellabs.com (Lester Bautista) writes:

>In article <1991Feb20.151226.3076 at monsanto.com> mwblas at monsanto.com writes:
>>
>>	Here's a simple question (At least I hope it's simple).
>>	The system startup file is /etc/rc.  What do the letters 
>>	rc stand for?  Thanks.
>>	
>>	
>>					Marc
>>					

>Somebody had told me that the "rc" in the dot files .cshrc and .mailrc
>stand for "run command". I would guess that this also applies for
>/etc/rc - my $.02 worth.


I thought it meant "run card" from sometime in the past, hopefully in the
past. :-)

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