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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news From: "Justin (Gus) Hurwitz" <ghurwitz@dyndns.com> 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: 18 Jun 1997 11:08:19 GMT Organization: Electronic Information Systems Lines: 41 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5o8fj3$m2k@winter.erols.com> References: <01bc711f$f03ebea0$101e71c6@microman> <5n7g8s$fki@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <5nci2o$30t@sylph.u-net.com> <5o1u75$ocn$1@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> <5o6kj1$gab$3@zinger.callamer.com> <33A777C2.794BDF32@FreeBSD.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: bhjjh.erols.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Received-On: 18 Jun 1997 11:08:19 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.12 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.26 i586) X-URL: news:33A777C2.794BDF32@FreeBSD.org Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:46247 comp.os.linux.misc:181098 comp.os.linux.x:64590 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3589 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43101 gnu.misc.discuss:31862 comp.unix.solaris:110012 "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >O'Shaughnessy Evans wrote: >> >> In article <5o1u75$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? > >Must be. Say, speaking of power, can anyone tell me how to get a strong >cat pee spell out of a rug? I've always heard that baking soda works >pretty well, but it doesn't seem to be having much of an effect in this >case. I don't know, but I'd suggest that you keep that baking soda around. I've seen acid do some pretty mean things to computer cases, and especially the drives. I always have a box of baking soda in case acid rain from outside gets on my computers. Speaking of which, does anyone know where I can get my roof repaired: a tree fell through it the other day, so now acid rain gets on my computers, and I only have so much baking soda. Thanks. [For the humor impaired: The above is a joke] -- Justin (Gus) Hurwitz info@dyndns.com -- ghurwitz@dyndns.com Co-President Electronic Information Systems 8758 Brook Road -- Mclean, Virginia 22102 -----PGP PUBLIC KEY AVAILABLE-----