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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 Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!como.dpie.gov.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!lithium.vancouver.wsu.edu!serval.net.wsu.edu!wcochran From: wcochran@eecs.wsu.edu (Wayne Cochran - CS) Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list? Message-ID: <EA6HHD.AAF@serval.net.wsu.edu> Sender: wcochran@irl.eecs.wsu.edu (Wayne Cochran - CS) Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 15:53:36 GMT X-Nntp-Posting-Host: irl.eecs.wsu.edu References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <5l3c2f$i1j@pasilla.bbnplanet.com> <337A003F.6A7B@ncofsi.com> <3378D37F.462F3A47@gaijin.com> <Pine.SUN.3.95.970513170134.19438A-100000@omni2> <Pine.GSO.3.96.970513200952.7143D-100000@tree.Stanford.EDU> Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University X-Newsreader: xrn 7.02 Lines: 32 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:44922 comp.os.linux.misc:175223 comp.os.linux.x:61522 alt.os.linux:21120 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3203 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40869 gnu.misc.discuss:31237 comp.unix.solaris:106450 tla = three letter acronymn sed = stream editor awk = Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan perl = pratical extraction and report language lex = lexical analyzer yacc = yet another compiler compiler tar = tape archiver (there are a million of these -- any particular one you want?) ip = internet protocol tcp = transmission control protocol udp = unix domain protocol nis = network information services yp = yellow pages nfs = network file system ftp = file transfer protocol rpc = remote procedure call xdr = external data representation (there are a million of these -- check any book on tcp/ip or http://www.idicalif.com/acro1.htm) Here is one TLA I could never find out for those of you who code in assembly. Just as there is a text and data section for executable and read-only data repectively, what does bss stand for in bss section (it is the read/write data section for most assemblers/linkers)? I always just called it the bs section. -- wayne Wayne O. Cochran wcochran@eecs.wsu.edu http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~wcochran Ecclesiastes 3:11