From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 3 8:45:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.inu.net (downtown.inu.net [208.129.164.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C09037B639 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 08:45:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bob@inu.net) Received: from inu.net [208.129.164.4] by mail.inu.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-5.05) id AC074D540146; Fri, 03 Mar 2000 10:44:55 -0600 Message-ID: <38BFEB64.D1EF14D3@inu.net> Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 10:42:12 -0600 From: Bob Martin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Heikki Paatela Cc: David Scheidt , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: M$ one-ups UNIX??? References: <20000302014342.B327@marder-1> <20000302123251.B23719@silmu.st.jyu.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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? > > -- > Heikki Paatela > My version 3 manual from USL says that it first appeared in version 1. Bob Martin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message