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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!gatech!news-relay.ncren.net!unc-cs!fddinewz.oit.unc.edu!calzone.oit.unc.edu!usenet From: jem@calzone.oit.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid) 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: 15 May 1997 13:44:51 -0400 Organization: SunSITE UNC-CH Lines: 16 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5lfi2j$m39@calzone.oit.unc.edu> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <5l37jg$87j$1@wuff.mayn.de> <337B425E.7DA45569@grail.cba.csuohio.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45006 comp.os.linux.misc:175448 comp.os.linux.x:61631 alt.os.linux:21182 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3249 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40965 gnu.misc.discuss:31289 comp.unix.solaris:106614 In article <337B425E.7DA45569@grail.cba.csuohio.edu>, Jae-Hyuck Lee <jalee@grail.cba.csuohio.edu> wrote: >Is there anybody who knows what 'f' stands for in fvwm, fvwm2, fvwm95, >etc? Originally "feeble" (fvwm was a stripped down version of twm by Robert Nation). Now that some versions and off-shoots are bigger than twm ever was (although very configurable), I believe it stands for "fine" or "fabulous" cheers, jem. -- jem@cnidr.org\/Center for Networked Information and Discovery and Retrieval Co-author of UNIX Web Server Book (2nd ed), available January, '96 from Ventana <URL:http://www.vmedia.com/cat/press/store/wsb>