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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!dukat.mark.nfr.com!not-for-mail From: mark@dukat.mark.nfr.com (Mark Sienkiewicz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list? Date: 21 May 1997 00:23:49 -0400 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 25 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5lttcl$ht9@dukat.mark.nfr.com> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <33802E2A.79546DDB@actrix.gen.nz> <slrn5o0uic.iog.hdm@stress.noc.demon.net> <3381A814.5FFF@ford.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dukat.mark.nfr.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45247 comp.os.linux.misc:176271 comp.os.linux.x:62119 alt.os.linux:21433 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3352 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41326 gnu.misc.discuss:31403 comp.unix.solaris:107038 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.