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From: "L. Scott Emmons" <scotte@center.uscs.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 08:41:44 -0700
Organization: CableData R&D Center, El Dorado Hills, CA, USA
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Greg Hayes wrote:
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> Where does 'foo' come from
Well, 'foo' is short for 'foobar', which AFAIK is a bludgeoning of
'fubar', of which one common expansion is: "F*'d Up Beyond All Relief".
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