In-Reply-To: Your message of 29-Oct-81 2156-EST Via: Ucb-C70.ArpaNet; 31 Oct 81 6:36-PDT I had always assumed that "rc" came from "runcom", which I think is a PDP-10ism, although I don't remember where I first encountered it. In turn, I had assumed that "runcom" was "run command file". -------