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From: fcrary@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary)
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: 22 May 1997 16:26:11 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
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References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <5l37jg$87j$1@wuff.mayn.de> <337B425E.7DA45569@grail.cba.csuohio.edu> <5lolpf$als$5@hole.sdsu.edu>
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In article <5lolpf$als$5@hole.sdsu.edu>,
Tracy R. Reed <treed@rohan.sdsu.edu> wrote:
>NAME
> fvwm - F(?) Virtual Window Manager for X11
>SYNOPSIS
> fvwm [ options ]
><SNIP>
> The name "FVWM" used to stand for something, but I forgot
> what. (Feeble, famous, foobar? It doesn't really matter,
> this is an acronym based society anyway.)
>Although some people say it's "F*cked Virtual Window Manager" :)
Along those lines, where did ``foo'', ``bar'' and ``foobar'' come
from? Is there any chance ``foobar'' is a pun on the old acronym
``FUBAR'' (Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition)?
Frank Crary
CU Boulder