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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!206.154.70.8!news.webspan.net!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!hose.news.pipex.net!pipex!warm.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.utell.co.uk!usenet 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 14:43:22 GMT Organization: Awfulhak Ltd. Lines: 34 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5o8s6a$ob2@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> References: <01bc711f$f03ebea0$101e71c6@microman> <5n7g8s$fki@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <5nci2o$30t@sylph.u-net.com> <5o1u75$ocn$1@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> <5o6kj1$gab$3@zinger.callamer.com> <33A777C2.794BDF32@FreeBSD.org> <5o8s2g$o6r@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> Reply-To: brian@awfulhak.org, brian@utell.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: shift.utell.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:46270 comp.os.linux.misc:181161 comp.os.linux.x:64615 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3593 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43119 gnu.misc.discuss:31869 comp.unix.solaris:110059 In article <5o8s2g$o6r@ui-gate.utell.co.uk>, brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers) writes: > In article <33A777C2.794BDF32@freebsd.org>, > "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes: >> O'Shaughnessy Evans wrote: >>> >>> In article <5o1u75$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 ! ^ oops, I mean "cat" > > 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 !