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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!cygnus.com!usenet From: jrudd@cygnus.com (John Rudd) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things Date: 8 Nov 1996 20:58:42 GMT Organization: Cygnus Support Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5606u2$j23@majipoor.cygnus.com> References: <55vhpf$q3o@mail1.wg.waii.com> <560146$t9c@mail1.wg.waii.com> Reply-To: jrudd@cygnus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: arcadia.cygnus.com X-Newsreader: RadicalNews (TM) 0.8.8 Beta(s) Cc: markw@zeus.wg.waii.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:26183 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1437 alt.folklore.computers:124219 In <560146$t9c@mail1.wg.waii.com> Mark Whetzel wrote: > : Some of the others I have heard about: the naming of 'biff', grep, yacc. > > BY this sentence... what I was looking for was OTHER types of > 'funny' unix commands/programs/procedures and their naming.. I know > about biff, grep and yacc... > You mean things like "awk" is the last initials of the 3 authors of the program/language (Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan)? -- John "kzin" Rudd jrudd@cygnus.com (ex- kzin@email.sjsu.edu) =========Intel: Putting the backward in backward compatible.============ Spammers: I charge you for my time, disk, and bandwidth if you post off- topic solicitations for money in the groups I read. $500/post/group.