Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Barry Margolin
Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 00:00

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In article <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>,
Matthias Kopfermann <fk5a005@rzaix42.uni-hamburg.de> wrote:
>( e.g. ls:list screen: explanations on how the abbreviation came from
>, that example is  a list separated by
>colons. should the abbreviation be in upper case and every corresponding
>explanation in upper case , too like LS:List Screen )

Just so you know, "ls" comes from "LiSt".  It has nothing to do with the
screen (at the time Unix was developed, most people had printing terminals,
as video displays were extremely expensive).
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Barry Margolin
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From: Barry Margolin <barmar@bbnplanet.com>
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/10
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