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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
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 14:41:20 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <33A777C2.794BDF32@freebsd.org>,
"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> 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.
That'll teach you to leave your wig where the can can sit on it !
Hmm, I'd suggest that someone trims the Newsgroups: line :)
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !