Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Lawrence Cragg
Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 00:00

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> In article <337A003F.6A7B@ncofsi.com>, jbodarky@ncofsi.com wrote:
> >bc = * I think i read somewhere that this is Berkeley Calculator, but
> >        that doesn't make sense.  ANY IDEAS?

Somewhere I've seen bc as a command meaning "beautify C" (I'm serious!)
I think it was on a DEC machine and it was supposed to get the
indentation right. It might also have put the curly braces in the
"right" position.

-- 
Lawrence Cragg, Toronto, Ontario, Canada <Cragg@Inforamp.Net>

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From: Lawrence Cragg <Cragg@Inforamp.Net>
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/18
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