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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!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newshub2.home.com!newshub1.home.com!news.home.com!enews.sgi.com!news.corp.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!csulb.edu!drivel.ics.uci.edu!news.cs.ucla.edu!not-for-mail From: Scott Michel <scottm@cs.ucla.edu> 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: 17 May 1997 04:12:44 GMT Organization: UCLA CS Dept Lines: 31 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5ljb7s$spn@delphi.cs.ucla.edu> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <3378D37F.462F3A47@gaijin.com> <Pine.SUN.3.95.970513170134.19438A-100000@omni2> <5lanj7$6r4@netaxs.com> <5ldu0d$n40@cicsun.univ-bpclermont.fr> <337C74CC.33E7@amtelcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: taliesin.cs.ucla.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 970120] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45102 comp.os.linux.misc:175761 comp.os.linux.x:61815 alt.os.linux:21272 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3296 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41098 gnu.misc.discuss:31341 comp.unix.solaris:106762 pip == peripheral interchange program. (It came from DEC's PDP-11 RSTS operating system, and had an incantation on the PDP-8 as well. Ahhh ... those were the days... when you had to boot a paper tape to boot a mag tape ... And I'm not that old, either.) -scottm In gnu.misc.discuss craigcu@amtelcom.com alleges: : Roger Espel Llima wrote: : > didn't cp/m have a command called PIP too, for copying? i think i saw : > that on old crappy amstrads. : > : > Roger : Aaaahh, yes, CP/M. It still warms the cockles of my heart, and I too am : not quite 40. : C-squared. : --------------------------------------------- : Name: Craig Cullum, Engineering Technologist : E-mail: craigcu@amtelcom.com : Vox: United States: 608 838 4194 or 4197 (ext.128) : Fax: United States: 608 838 8367 -- Scott Michel Graduate School: UCLA Computer Science It's Not Just A Job. PhD Student It's An Indenture. "AND STOP CALLING ME Scooter!" :-)