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Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Dominic Mitchell
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 00:00
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Earlier, Sam Hostetter <shostett@indiana.edu> wrote:
> Brian Raiter wrote:
> > 
> > Phil Eschallier  <phil@bts.com>:
> > 
> > > grep = Global Regular Expresion Parser
> 
> 	Actually, grep stands for General Regular Expresion Parser

As pointed out elsehwere, s/Parse/print/.

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From: hdm@demon.net (Dominic Mitchell)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/15
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