Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 10:42:12 -0600 From: Bob Martin <bob@inu.net> To: Heikki Paatela <paatela@st.jyu.fi> Cc: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: M$ one-ups UNIX??? Message-ID: <38BFEB64.D1EF14D3@inu.net> 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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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
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