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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!news.ysu.edu!usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list? Date: 15 May 1997 10:46:58 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 15 Message-ID: <5lepj2$iqt@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <Pine.SUN.3.95.970513170134.19438A-100000@omni2> <Pine.GSO.3.96.970513200952.7143D-100000@tree.stanford.edu> <EA6HHD.AAF@serval.net.wsu.edu> <5ldbhd$h9m@web.nmti.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:44977 comp.os.linux.misc:175365 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3234 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40926 peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) wrote: (meaning of `bss') > Block Start (something), IIRC. > > Damn. Block Starting Symbol. I eventually forgot the origin (must be an old assembler/machine language). -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j