From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 11 13:45:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA06626 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 13:45:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from math.berkeley.edu (math.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.183.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA06621 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 13:45:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@math.berkeley.edu) Received: (from dan@localhost) by math.berkeley.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA23992; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 13:45:15 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 13:45:15 -0800 (PST) From: dan@math.berkeley.edu (Dan Strick) Message-Id: <199811112145.NAA23992@math.berkeley.edu> To: sthaug@nethelp.no Subject: Re: Is it soup yet? :-) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, dan@math.berkeley.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > The mdec name certainly isn't FreeBSD-specific, changing it would add > ... > Has it: FreeBSD, NetBSD, possibly OpenBSD. You forgot Solaris-1. /usr/mdec goes back at least as far as "research version 6" circa 1976. I don't remember when it disappeared from the BTL/ATT/USL/..SystemV sequence (never used the later versions at all). The name of the directory was a minor mystery even in 1976. I suspect the "dec" stood for "Digital Equipment Corporation" but never knew what to make of the "m". If everyone wants to change the name of the directory to something more obvious ... sure, why not. While we are at it, why don't we also change the name of that non-obvious "grep" command. Dan Strick dan@math.berkeley.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message