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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!news.bbnplanet.com!ott.istar!news.istar.net!tor.istar!east.istar!news.inforamp.net!news From: Lawrence Cragg <Cragg@Inforamp.Net> 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: 18 May 1997 17:54:21 GMT Organization: Information & Control Systems Lines: 12 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5lnfod$q8@news.inforamp.net> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <5l3c2f$i1j@pasilla.bbnplanet.com> <337A003F.6A7B@ncofsi.com> <5lii72$f0@sjx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com> Reply-To: Cragg@Inforamp.Net NNTP-Posting-Host: ts64-16.tor.istar.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Macintosh; I; PPC) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45141 comp.os.linux.misc:175879 comp.os.linux.x:61889 alt.os.linux:21325 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3311 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41137 gnu.misc.discuss:31357 comp.unix.solaris:106821 > > 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. -- Lawrence Cragg, Toronto, Ontario, Canada <Cragg@Inforamp.Net>