Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Steve Juneau
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 00:00

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lumpy (lumpy@cs.ucc.ie) wrote:
: Here's a few that I always wonder about:

: /etc = ETCetera ??
: /usr = USeR ??
: /var = VARious ??

: tcsh = exTended C SHell ??

: biff ?? Does it mean anything?

It's the name of the program's author dog which used to bark
when the postman was delivering mail.

--
Steeve Juneau
steevej@acm.org
http://www.rvo.qc.ca/~steevej

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From: sjuneau@bnr.ca (Steve Juneau)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/20
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