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From: Tony Walton <tony.walton@UK.Sun.COM.PLEASE.REMOVE.THIS.TO.REPLY>
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: Mon, 19 May 1997 11:38:02 +0100
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References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <5l3c2f$i1j@pasilla.bbnplanet.com> <337A003F.6A7B@ncofsi.com> <5lii72$f0@sjx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com> <5lnfod$q8@news.inforamp.net>
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Lawrence Cragg wrote:
>
> >
> > In article <337A003F.6A7B@ncofsi.com>, jbodarky@ncofsi.com wrote:
> > >bc = * I think i read somewhere that this is Berkeley Calculator, but
> > > that doesn't make sense. ANY IDEAS?
>
> Somewhere I've seen bc as a command meaning "beautify C" (I'm serious!)
> I think it was on a DEC machine and it was supposed to get the
> indentation right. It might also have put the curly braces in the
> "right" position.
And it's called "cb"
NAME
cb - C program beautifier
Tony