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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!news-peer.gsl.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.icm.edu.pl!news.nask.pl!01-newsfeed.univie.ac.at!CARNet.hr!news From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> 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: 01 Jun 1997 00:55:13 +0200 Organization: SRCE Zagreb, Croatia Lines: 12 Sender: hniksic@jagor.srce.hr Distribution: world Message-ID: <kigwwofp7zi.fsf@jagor.srce.hr> References: <337C64F0.41C6@cs.ucc.ie> <5lsbv4$id8@bmtlh10.bnr.ca> <3383FA57.4855@uab.ericsson.se> <EAMxy9.EF4@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <3390a559.4210811@news.dircon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: jagor.srce.hr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Attribution: Hrv X-Face: Mie8:rOV<\c/~z{s.X4A{!?vY7{drJ([U]0O=W/<W*SMo/Mv:58:*_y~ki>xDi&N7XG KV^$k0m3Oe/)'e%3=$PCR&3ITUXH,cK>]bci&<qQ>Ff%x_>1`T(+M2Gg/fgndU%k*ft [(7._6e0n-V%|%'[c|q:;}td$#INd+;?!-V=c8Pqf}3J Mail-Copies-To: never Emacs: because idle RAM is the Devil's playground. X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.4.52/XEmacs 20.2 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45586 comp.os.linux.misc:177930 comp.os.linux.x:62985 alt.os.linux:21715 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3456 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41956 gnu.misc.discuss:31551 comp.unix.solaris:108111 mellis@dircon.co.uk (Mike Ellis) writes: > Sorry to spoil the fun but these are not acronyms. An acronym is an > abbreviation which can be pronounced as if it were a word. How on > earth does one pronounce tcsh ? People keep asking me the same thing about my name. :-) -- Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia --------------------------------+-------------------------------- Good pings come in small packets.