| Definitions of 'rc file' |
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1. rc file
[Unix: from runcom files on
the CTSS system 1962-63, via the startup script
/etc/rc] Script file containing startup instructions
for an application program (or an entire operating system), usually a text
file containing commands of the sort that might have been invoked manually
once the system was running but are to be executed automatically each time
the system starts up. See also dot file,
profile (sense 1).
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