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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.telstra.net!psgrain!news-stk-11.sprintlink.net!news-stk-3.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news-in-east.sprintlink.net!144.212.95.13!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!news-xfer.cybernet.dk!news.onramp.net!news-in.iadfw.net!news.gymnet.com!LSNT1!lsbsdi6.lightspeed.net!news-ana-7.sprintlink.net!news-ana-24.sprintlink.net!news-west.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!europa.clark.ne t!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 Lines: 30 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <A01469D243A414B4.60EFD3C313DDF166.4A538EC778681837@library-proxy.airnews.net> X-Orig-Message-ID: <3390a559.4210811@news.dircon.co.uk> References: <337C64F0.41C6@cs.ucc.ie> <5lsbv4$id8@bmtlh10.bnr.ca> <3383FA57.4855@uab.ericsson.se> <EAMxy9.EF4@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Reply-To: mellis@dircon.co.uk NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library.airnews.net NNTP-Posting-Host: biceps.gymnet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.0/32.390 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45807 comp.os.linux.misc:179300 comp.os.linux.x:63741 alt.os.linux:21982 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3524 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42564 gnu.misc.discuss:31688 comp.unix.solaris:108942 richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote: >In article <3383FA57.4855@uab.ericsson.se> Michael Salmon <Michael.Salmon@uab.ericsson.se> writes: > >>> : tcsh = exTended C SHell ?? > >>I have always believed that it stood for Tab C Shell > >Well, there have been several tcshs, and in the case of at least one of them >the t stood for Tenex: > > macbeth$ 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.