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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!seagoon.newcastle.edu.au!brushtail.hna.com.au!macabre!avenger From: avenger@macabre.kaelos.hna.com.au (Andre van Eyssen) 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: 4 Jun 1997 06:29:44 GMT Organization: Kaelos Computing Australia Lines: 22 Message-ID: <slrn5pa2qo.7pc.avenger@macabre.kaelos.hna.com.au> 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> <5m1s33$7q8@lace.colorado.edu> <3385713c.16584397@192.168.0.1> <5miekm$8pa$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <3392f0d3.14018157@192.168.0.1> NNTP-Posting-Host: macabre.kaelos.hna.com.au X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.8.4 (BETA) UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45728 comp.os.linux.misc:178903 comp.os.linux.x:63534 alt.os.linux:21903 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3504 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42422 gnu.misc.discuss:31645 comp.unix.solaris:108689 In article <3392f0d3.14018157@192.168.0.1>, Edward Betts wrote: > >On 28 May 1997 23:20:54 GMT, brettw@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au (Duckula) >scribbled: > >>Edward Betts (edward@hairnet.demon.co.uk) wrote: >>: it stands for FVWM Virtual Windows Manager >>Aaaah, but the best of all is GNU which stands for "GNU is Not Unix". >Pine Is Not Elm Wasn't that changed to some lamerline similar to "Program for Internet News+Email" or something (pathetic!) like that? -- Andre van Eyssen, Kaelos Computing. (T4216908) "One who is not wise himself cannot be well advised" ---Machiavelli The Prince s23