Re: [OT] Why /etc?

[hiranokazunari <hrnkaz@netscape.net>]

nthomas@cise.ufl.edu wrote:

> * hiranokazunari <hrnkaz@netscape.net> [2002-12-14 11:44:42 +0900]:
>  
>
> > > > But I am wondering why the host-specific configuration partition
> > > > is called /etc?
> > > >        
> > > [...] It really was the "stuff that doesn't go
> > > anywhere else" directory, hence the name /etc. At least I assume that's
> > > how the name was devised.
> > >      
> > I should have learnt from the history. Now I can read /etc as etcetera
> > from the bottom of my heart.
> >    
>
> Note that etc directory in Unix is pronounced "ett-see", it rhymes with
> the proper name Betsy. It probably can't hurt to think of it like that
> either.
>
> thomas
That's really nice.  Now I got the exact pronunciation for /etc.
BTW Betsy is my first English paperback I read.
Loren's dream car.  Yes, it's nice to think of it like that.

K.Hirano