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From: shaug@callamer.com (O'Shaughnessy Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 17 Jun 1997 18:21:21 GMT
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In article <5o1u75$ocn$1@engnews2.eng.sun.com>,
raf@sunraf.eng.sun.com (Roger A. Faulkner) writes:
> For your edification, this is the geneaology of the name "truss",
> taken from some mail sent by one of Ron Gomes (my cohort wrt /proc
> in SVR4) or me, dated Sep 26, 1988):
>...
Could this thread have veered further from the topic while still somehow
having retained a nominal link to the subject? This is amazing. Such is
the power of the Usenet, eh?
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