Quoth Martyn Johnson on Tue, Jun 17, 2003:
> > Should it be Disk or Disc?
>
> I'd say neither.
>
> All exim knows is that the quota has been exceeded on a filing system.
> It doesn't have a clue what physical medium it is stored on. It will
> be very silly when dis[ck]s become obsolete.
It's a system message, not something Philip invented:
ethanol:/tmp> cat foo.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <errno.h>
int
main()
{
puts(strerror(EDQUOT));
return 0;
}
ethanol:/tmp> make foo
cc -O2 -o foo foo.c
ethanol:/tmp> ./foo
Disc quota exceeded
ethanol:/tmp>
Apart from that, there exist other quotas, like printing quotas.
But this is not the most archaic terminology in UNIX, mind you.
When was the last time you've seen a TTY?
Vadik (Not a typewriter).
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