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by KineticLensman
2248 days ago
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> I googled it for you I checked in my copy of the jargon file (which I downloaded in August 2001) and got: rc file /R-C fi:l/ n. [Unix: from `runcom files' on the CTSS system 1962-63, via the startup script /etc/rc] Script file containing startup instructions for an application program (or an entire operating system), usually a text file containing commands of the sort that might have been invoked manually once the system was running but are to be executed automatically each time the system starts up. See also dot file, profile (sense 1) |
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