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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!news.eli.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!207.172.3.52!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!ix.netcom.com!news1.noc.netcom.net!noc.netcom.net!tweety.uscs.com!news 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 Lines: 13 Message-ID: <33846938.17E2040D@center.uscs.com> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <5l3c2f$i1j@pasilla.bbnplanet.com> <337A003F.6A7B@ncofsi.com> <3378D37F.462F3A47@gaijin.com> <m3bu6dyd3y.fsf@zaphod.enst.fr> <5lv7kg$oen$1@taliesin.netcom.net.uk> <jR8CBBAo1BhzEwIZ@hayford.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: scotte.center.uscs.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b4 [en] (Win95; I) To: Greg Hayes <greg@hayford.demon.co.uk> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:3383 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41459 Greg Hayes wrote: > > 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". -- ________________________________________________________________________ L. Scott Emmons | CableData R&D Center - El Dorado Hills, CA, USA Sr. Software Engineer | Special Projects, Systems Development Dept (916) 939-6088 | Views and content are my own, not CableData's scotte@center.uscs.com | IZCC #2364 '81 280ZX Turbo