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From: edward@hairnet.demon.co.uk (Edward Betts)
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: Fri, 16 May 1997 18:38:36 GMT
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On Fri, 16 May 1997 14:45:21 +0100, lumpy <lumpy@cs.ucc.ie> scribbled:
>Here's a few that I always wonder about:
>/var = VARious ??
:var: /veir/ or /var/ /n./ Short for `variable'.
Compare {arg}, {param}.
>biff ?? Does it mean anything?
:biff: /bif/ /vt./ To notify someone of incoming mail. From
the BSD utility `biff(1)', which was in turn named after a
friendly golden Labrador who used to chase frisbees in the halls at
UCB while 4.2BSD was in development. There was a legend that it
had a habit of barking whenever the mailman came, but the author of
`biff' says this is not true. No relation to {B1FF}.
The on-line hacker Jargon File, version 4.0.0, 24 JUL 1996
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>lumpy@cs.ucc.ie http://interzone.ucc.ie/lumpy
>
> Reason 1 why Kirk is better then Picard:
> One Word: Balls
Reason 1 why Picard is better then Kirk:
One Word: Brains
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