Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 11:26:30 -0500 From: Marc Ramirez <mrami@bluecirclesoft.com> To: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Cc: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Subject: Re: A bit of trivia: what does usr stand for? Message-ID: <20031221162629.GA75959@www.bluecirclesoft.com> In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.1.20031220230641.02d15ec0@popserver.sfu.ca> References: <5.0.2.1.1.20031220224013.02cf25c0@popserver.sfu.ca> <5.0.2.1.1.20031220224013.02cf25c0@popserver.sfu.ca> <5.0.2.1.1.20031220230641.02d15ec0@popserver.sfu.ca>
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--+HP7ph2BbKc20aGI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 11:08:02PM +0000, Colin Percival wrote: > At 18:04 20/12/2003 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > >Colin Percival wrote: > >> There's an urban myth floating around that it meant Unix System Resour= ce. > >>According to denizens of afc, this is likely a backronym, since the fir= st > >>use of /usr/ was to store user's files. > > > >The urban myth is believeable, though, since it seems silly to abbreviate > >"user" with "usr" ... I mean, you're only saving 1 letter. >=20 > The same could be said about /tmp. I suspect it has less to do with > abbreviation, and more to do with someone having a broken "e" key on their > keyboard. ;) I always thought "tmp" stood for "Temporarily Manipulated Philes." Marc. --=20 Marc Ramirez Blue Circle Software Corporation 513-688-1070 (main) 513-382-1270 (direct) http://www.bluecirclesoft.com http://www.mrami.com (personal) --+HP7ph2BbKc20aGI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/5cmzg1EgpGw750IRAkvhAJ44L3F037hsXUeRh3YKG3j8ErPkkACgvYF3 5nLwE04kMd5ObcK0UWmu9eg= =8en2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+HP7ph2BbKc20aGI--
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