From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 2 2:33:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from silmu.st.jyu.fi (silmu.st.jyu.fi [130.234.40.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE6F937BFC2 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 02:33:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paatela@silmu.st.jyu.fi) Received: (from paatela@localhost) by silmu.st.jyu.fi (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA01295; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 12:32:51 +0200 Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 12:32:51 +0200 From: Heikki Paatela To: David Scheidt Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: M$ one-ups UNIX??? Message-ID: <20000302123251.B23719@silmu.st.jyu.fi> References: <20000302014342.B327@marder-1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4us In-Reply-To: ; from David Scheidt on Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 11:00:50PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 11:00:50PM -0600, David Scheidt wrote: > On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Mark Ovens wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 10:07:10AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > Just saw this on a NetBSD list. It looks like a good idea. We should > > > make sure that they don't implement it before we do. > > :) Greg, can you nail down the year that symlinks first appeared in Unix? > HISTORY > An ln command appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX. The simplified link > com- > mand conforms to Version 2 of the Single UNIX Specification. > > So ln(1) is coming up on its thirtieth birthday. I don't remember when > symlinks came into the picture. Seems that man-page from 2.1.7.1-RELEASE still says: "HISTORY A ln command appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX." but 2.2.1 says: "HISTORY A ln command appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX." NetBSD man-pages still say that it appeared in Version 6 - so I am wondering which one is correct? -- Heikki Paatela To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message