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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!chi-news.cic.net!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!europa.clark.net!disgorge.news.demon.net!demon!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!btnet!btnet-feed2!dircon!not-for-mail From: mellis@dircon.co.uk (Mike Ellis) 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: Sat, 31 May 1997 22:30:22 GMT Organization: via Direct Connection News service Message-ID: <3390a559.4210811@news.dircon.co.uk> References: <337C64F0.41C6@cs.ucc.ie> <5lsbv4$id8@bmtlh10.bnr.ca> <3383FA57.4855@uab.ericsson.se> <EAMxy9.EF4@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Reply-To: mellis@dircon.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: gw5-058.pool.dircon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.0/32.390 Lines: 29 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45649 comp.os.linux.misc:178281 comp.os.linux.x:63192 alt.os.linux:21804 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3470 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42106 gnu.misc.discuss:31577 comp.unix.solaris:108348 richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote: >In article <3383FA57.4855@uab.ericsson.se> Michael Salmon <Michael.Salmon@uab.ericsson.se> writes: > >>> : tcsh = exTended C SHell ?? > >>I have always believed that it stood for Tab C Shell > >Well, there have been several tcshs, and in the case of at least one of them >the t stood for Tenex: > > macbeth$ more tcsh.doc > Tenex Style CShell Command Processor > > This is a brief documentation of `tcsh' (Tenex CSHell), which is an > extension of CShell and has the following goodies. > >Tenex was the extended version of TOPS-10, which had very fancy >context-sensitive command and argument completion. > >-- Richard >-- >"I" is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. 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 ? Most TLAs (three letter acronyms) are not TLAs at all. In fact TLA is not a TLA itself.