Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Tony Walton
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 00:00

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R!ch wrote:
> 
> On 22 May 1997, Volker Borchert wrote:
> 
> >
> > In article <jR8CBBAo1BhzEwIZ@hayford.demon.co.uk>, Greg Hayes <greg@hayford.demon.co.uk> writes:
> >
> > |> Where does 'foo' come from
> >
> > foubar : FOuled Up Beyond Any Recognition
> 
> Actually, the etymology of 'foo' is rather more obscure.  You're
> thinking of FUBAR.  See the Online Jargin File for more details:
> http://www.ccil.org/jargon/jargon.html

All good stuff - but it does omit one recursive derivation I've heard -

foo == File of Obscure Origin :-)

-- 
Tony

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From: Tony Walton <tony.walton@UK.Sun.COM.PLEASE.REMOVE.THIS.TO.REPLY>
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/23
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