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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in2.uu.net!128.230.129.112!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!ais.net!news.dgsys.com!sloth.swcp.com!fugu!SantaFe!usenet From: Mark Galassi <rosalia@nis.lanl.gov> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: unix acronyms - collecting a list? Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.misc Date: 05 Jul 1997 09:05:51 -0600 Organization: The Santa Fe Institute Lines: 10 Sender: rosalia@papageno Distribution: inet Message-ID: <m33ept5yk0.fsf@papageno.i-have-a-misconfigured-system-so-shoot-me> References: <5p797t$f4n@news0-alterdial.uu.net> <33B806A0.1E03920B@ncofsi.com> <33B937C5.2473@facstaff.wisc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dial143.roadrunner.com X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:3646 comp.unix.shell:46811 comp.os.linux.misc:183372 comp.os.linux.x:65822 alt.os.linux:22899 gnu.misc.discuss:32175 comp.unix.solaris:111808 > > > >>users. (Same thing I suppose.) To quote from the vi manual: "vi - > > > >>pronounced vee-eye". > > Not on the three major-vendor Unices I checked... Ah, but modern proprietary UNIX variants tend to take out a lot of the cute stuff from the manuals because they think it is unprofessional. The Berkeley 2.9 and 4.2 manuals had that.