Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 09:56:17 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Heikki Paatela <paatela@st.jyu.fi> Cc: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: M$ one-ups UNIX??? Message-ID: <20000303095617.B12352@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000302123251.B23719@silmu.st.jyu.fi> References: <20000302014342.B327@marder-1> <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000301225919.16032B-100000@shell-1.enteract.com> <20000302123251.B23719@silmu.st.jyu.fi>
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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Thursday, 2 March 2000 at 12:32:51 +0200, Heikki Paatela wrote: > 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? The First Edition. It's basic to the way the file system functions. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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