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In article <18704@attcan.UUCP> john@attcan.UUCP (John Benfield) writes:
>In article <tdfmj...@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>, st...@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Steve Davis) writes:
>>Jay.As...@f160.n3603.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Jay Ashworth) writes:
>> 
>>>Barry Margolin, to All on Friday April 24 1992:
>>
>>> BM> Terminology question: are the Unix units of file storage called
>>> BM> "filesystems" (one word) or "file systems" (two words)?  Neither is in
>>> BM> TNHD.
>>
>>>To the best of my knowledge, Barry, from 9 years at this...
>> 
>>>The jargon term for what you boot from, or mount, on a unix system is, from the preponderance of the references I've seen, is "filesystem" (no space).
>>
>>Eh.  Excuse me to butt in here with a little bit of >EVIDENCE<.
>>All you people have to do is RTFM.  Look at this:
>> 
>>%man -k \(2\) | grep file | grep system
>>getdents (2)            - gets directory entries in a filesystem independent format 
>>getdirentries (2)       - gets directory entries in a filesystem independent format
>>statfs, fstatfs (2)     - get file system statistics
>>ustat (2)               - get file system statistics
>>%
>> 
>>Try this with '\(8\)' for even more confusement.  In short, use
>>whatever feels better to your fingers while you type it.
>
>Oh...of course!!!! It must be true! They wrote it in the man pages! :}
>
>filesystem:	a logical storage allocation for the systematic organization
>		and containment of data.
>
>file system:	a large cabinet intended for the storage of files.
>
>Calling a 'filesystem' a 'file system' is a Berkeleyism that never
>quite died. The terms are only interchangeable if you get paid to 
>write shoddy man-pages or if your 'filesystem' is housed in a 'file
>system'

But my "UNIX Tim-Sharing System: UNIX Programmer's Manual 7th Edition",
Copyright 1983, 1979, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated
uses both "filesystem" and "file system".  The former tends to be
used when refering to command arguments, while the latter may or
may not be used elsewhere.

e.g. the dump man page has under FILES "filesystem and tape vary with
installation", while the df man page has "Default file systems vary
with installation."  The dcheck man page uses "file system" everywhere
except for the SYNOPSIS.

It seems that at least at this point the manuals were already
inconsistant.  How much influence was there outside of Bell
at this point?

For those not familar with V7 Unix here are some of the new features
mentioned in the introduction:
	file lengths now 32 bits rather than 24 bits.
	lint
	sed
	stdio
	make
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