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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in3.uu.net!206.229.87.25!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!news.maxwell.syr.edu!azure.xara.net!xara.net!news-feed1.globalnet.co.uk!btnet-feed2!bmdhh222.bnr.ca!bcarh8ac.bnr.ca!nbdchc4.bnr.ca!bmtlh10.bnr.ca!sjuneau From: sjuneau@bnr.ca (Steve Juneau) 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: 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 Date: 20 May 1997 14:20:20 GMT Organization: Bell Northern Research Lines: 18 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5lsbv4$id8@bmtlh10.bnr.ca> References: <5kd2ng$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> NNTP-Posting-Host: bmtlh539.bnr.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45242 comp.os.linux.misc:176258 comp.os.linux.x:62108 alt.os.linux:21432 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3351 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41315 gnu.misc.discuss:31400 comp.unix.solaris:107025 lumpy (lumpy@cs.ucc.ie) wrote: : Here's a few that I always wonder about: : /etc = ETCetera ?? : /usr = USeR ?? : /var = VARious ?? : tcsh = exTended C SHell ?? : 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. -- Steeve Juneau steevej@acm.org http://www.rvo.qc.ca/~steevej