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Re:Rob Pike: the origin of dotfiles by agumonkey on Thursday August 02, 2012 @11:56PM (#4332454)
my de-obfuscation attempt:

etc > e.t.c > edit to configure.

the .rc suffix has a nice history btw

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Re:Rob Pike: the origin of dotfiles by raylu on Friday August 03, 2012 @01:39AM (#4332738)
What's the history of that?
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Re:Rob Pike: the origin of dotfiles by agumonkey on Friday August 03, 2012 @02:49AM (#4332889)
Legacy of the runcom shell that let's you record sequence of commands.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_commands

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