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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!ix.netcom.com!enews.sgi.com!news.corp.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!uhog.mit.edu!entertainment-tonight.ai.mit.edu!ai-lab!usenet From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list? Date: 14 May 1997 15:31:38 -0400 Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 22 Sender: joelh@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu Distribution: inet Message-ID: <sejaflxyhnp.fsf@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <337A003F.6A7B@ncofsi.com> <3378D37F.462F3A47@gaijin.com> <5lcjee$g4i$1@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> <5lclfo$597$1@news.ececs.uc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:44909 comp.os.linux.misc:175179 comp.os.linux.x:61507 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3196 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40857 gnu.misc.discuss:31229 comp.unix.solaris:106433 pateljb@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Jay Patel) writes: >>>> dd = Data Dump (At least I always thought so) >>>Device Dump I thought it was 'deleriously defined'. (JCL in Unix???) >>>> su = Super User >>>Substitute User >>Set User > May be, Screw User :-0 So how about ps? I alwasy assumed it stood for ProceSses, but I have a friend who swears it stands for Page Space. Anybody? Anybody? -- http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu All my opinions are my own, not the Free Software Foundation's. Second law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped