From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 30 21:21:15 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id VAA21044 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 21:21:15 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA21030 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 21:21:02 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id GAA23506 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 06:20:54 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id GAA08237 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 06:20:54 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id AAA04661 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 00:46:54 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508302246.AAA04661@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: pilot error on my part or feedback on the 2.1 snap To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 00:46:51 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199508302106.OAA19210@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Aug 30, 95 02:06:19 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 537 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > > Which is why the DOS partitions should be called paritions, etc.. `parition' is actually an interesting name. :-] I'm not clearly minded towards partition. It's been long-standing tradition for unices to have their partitioning of the disk, as well as for DOSists. You have to suprise one of both groups, either the former DOS users, or the former Unix users. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)