Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Edward Betts
Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 00:00

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On Fri, 16 May 1997 14:45:21 +0100, lumpy <lumpy@cs.ucc.ie> scribbled:

>Here's a few that I always wonder about:

>/var = VARious ??

 :var: /veir/ or /var/ /n./  Short for `variable'.
   Compare {arg}, {param}.

>biff ?? Does it mean anything?

 :biff: /bif/ /vt./  To notify someone of incoming mail.  From
   the BSD utility `biff(1)', which was in turn named after a
   friendly golden Labrador who used to chase frisbees in the halls at
   UCB while 4.2BSD was in development.  There was a legend that it
   had a habit of barking whenever the mailman came, but the author of
   `biff' says this is not true.  No relation to {B1FF}.

The on-line hacker Jargon File, version 4.0.0, 24 JUL 1996

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>  Reason 1 why Kirk is better then Picard:
>    One Word: Balls

  Reason 1 why Picard is better then Kirk:
    One Word: Brains

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From: edward@hairnet.demon.co.uk (Edward Betts)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/16
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