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From: Allen Kirby <akirby@att.com>
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
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 09:34:56 -0400
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To: Steffen Jahn <stjahn@sunpool.cs.uni-magdeburg.de>
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Lighten up - it was a joke.

Steffen Jahn wrote:
> 
> Rob McMahon (cudcv@csv.warwick.ac.uk.spam.off) wrote:
> : wcochran@eecs.wsu.edu (Wayne Cochran - CS) writes:
> :
> : > how silly of me, UDP = user datagram protocol
> :
> : How's aboout Unreliable Datagram Protocol.
> 
> RFC 768, J. Postel, 28 August 1980
> 
> This User Datagram  Protocol  (UDP)  is  defined  to  make  available  a
> datagram   mode  of  packet-switched   computer   communication  in  the
> environment  of  an  interconnected  set  of  computer  networks...

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Allen Kirby			AT&T ITS Production Services
akirby@att.com			Alpharetta, GA.