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Article #4444Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
From: H�vard Fosseng
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 00:00
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sjuneau@bnr.ca (Steve Juneau) skriv: > : 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. Not the author's dog. Peter H. Salus' "A Quarter Century of UNIX", states that biff was written by John Fodero. Biff the dog belonged to Heidi Stettner, according to whom "the story of Biff barking at the mailman is scurrilous canard". - H�vard Fosseng
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 10eb3b,3d362ec564ebdcba X-Google-Attributes: gid10eb3b,public X-Google-Thread: 1103af,3d362ec564ebdcba X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: fa705,3d362ec564ebdcba X-Google-Attributes: gidfa705,public X-Google-Thread: f4bda,3d362ec564ebdcba X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,3d362ec564ebdcba X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: faa64,3d362ec564ebdcba X-Google-Attributes: gidfaa64,public X-Google-Thread: 1012a6,3d362ec564ebdcba X-Google-Attributes: gid1012a6,public X-Google-Thread: 11035d,3d362ec564ebdcba X-Google-Attributes: gid11035d,public From: "H�vard Fosseng" <havardf@usit.uio.no> Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list? Date: 1997/05/20 Message-ID: <m80lo5ata4e.fsf@tag.uio.no> X-Deja-AN: 243219423 Distribution: inet References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <5l37jg$87j$1@wuff.mayn.de> <5l7jvt$q8b$10@halon.vggas.com> <33776BE4.6883@ford.com> <337C64F0.41C6@cs.ucc.ie> <5lsbv4$id8@bmtlh10.bnr.ca> Followup-To: gnu.misc.discuss Organization: University of Oslo, Norway Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris