Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Mark Sienkiewicz
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 00:00

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Many people seem to have an opinion on the meaning of "su".  Going
to the source:

"UNIX TIME-SHARING SYSTEM: UNIX PROGRAMMERS MANUAL Seventh Edition,
Volume 1  January, 1979"

NAME
	su - substitute user id temporarily
SYNOPSIS
	su [ userid ]


This, by the way, is called a "reference".  It is how you tell someone
where the information comes from.  The nice thing about a reference
is that anybody can check it.  If you can find a copy of the same
book, you can see that what I quoted above is accurate and not
just "gee, I seem to remember that..." or even "I heard from
somebody who heard from somebody who talked to Dennis Ritchie that..."

Anyone out there have a sixth edition or earlier manual to
look things up in?

-- 
Mark Sienkiewicz
Network Flight Recorder, Inc.

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From: mark@dukat.mark.nfr.com (Mark Sienkiewicz)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/21
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