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Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Icarus Sparry
Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 00:00
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In the referenced article, wcochran@eecs.wsu.edu (Wayne Cochran - CS) writes:
>Here is one TLA I could never find out for those of you who code in assembly.
>Just as there is a text and data section for executable and read-only data repectively,
>what does bss stand for in bss section (it is the read/write data section for 
>most assemblers/linkers)? I always just called it the bs section.

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From: ccsis@bath.ac.uk (Icarus Sparry)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/14
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