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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!newsfeeds.sol.net!nntp.uio.no!not-for-mail From: "Håvard Fosseng" <havardf@usit.uio.no> 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? Followup-To: gnu.misc.discuss Date: 20 May 1997 17:51:29 +0200 Organization: University of Oslo, Norway Lines: 15 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <m80lo5ata4e.fsf@tag.uio.no> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <5l37jg$87j$1@wuff.mayn.de> <5l7jvt$q8b$10@halon.vggas.com> <33776BE4.6883@ford.com> <337C64F0.41C6@cs.ucc.ie> <5lsbv4$id8@bmtlh10.bnr.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: tag.uio.no X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.4.52/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45227 comp.os.linux.misc:176215 comp.os.linux.x:62076 alt.os.linux:21421 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3347 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41292 gnu.misc.discuss:31395 comp.unix.solaris:106991 sjuneau@bnr.ca (Steve Juneau) skriv: > : biff ?? Does it mean anything? > > It's the name of the program's author dog which used to bark > when the postman was delivering mail. Not the author's dog. Peter H. Salus' "A Quarter Century of UNIX", states that biff was written by John Fodero. Biff the dog belonged to Heidi Stettner, according to whom "the story of Biff barking at the mailman is scurrilous canard". - Håvard Fosseng