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[comp.misc] Re: jargon file (was "Name that character!")

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From: Garrett Wollman
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1991 22:00
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Archive-name: hackers/words/jargon-classic/1991-06-05
Archive: ftp.cs.toronto.edu:doc/jargon.classic.Z [128.100.3.6]
Original-posting-by: wollman@emily.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Original-subject: Re: jargon file (was "Name that character!")
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)


In article <91Jun1.124431edt.595@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) writes:
>Yup, the size looks about right.  Another location is
>ftp.cs.toronto.edu:doc/jargon.classic.Z.  Less comprehensive and
>formal than the current opus, but more cultural flavour, in my opinion.

Well, why not go right back to the original!  So long as the SAIL
computer is still alive (I haven't received my "farewell" message
yet), ftp to sail.stanford.edu and get AIWORD.RF[UP,DOC].  That's
where I got mine.

-GAWollman

PS: It's probably somewhere on mc.lcs.mit.edu:/its/{ai,mx}, too.

Garrett A. Wollman - wollman@emily.uvm.edu

Disclaimer:  I'm not even sure this represents *my* opinion, never
mind UVM's, EMBA's, EMBA-CF's, or indeed anyone else's.

-- comp.archives file verification
ftp.cs.toronto.edu
lrwxrwxrwx  1 0        0              10 Mar 29 15:05 doc/jargon.classic.Z -> hackdict.Z
found jargon-classic ok
ftp.cs.toronto.edu:doc/jargon.classic.Z
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From: wollman@emily.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Subject: [comp.misc] Re: jargon file (was "Name that character!")
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