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From: Mike Czaplinski <mike.czaplinski@washingtondc.ncr.com>
Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things
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Mark Whetzel <markw@zeus.wg.waii.com> wrote:
>

[snip]

> Sort of like to make a collection of the 'in-jokes' and other strange
> reasons things are like they are in unix..

There's always the fuser command.....

Mike "Check man fuser on a system to see what I mean" Czaplinski
mike.czaplinski@washingtondc.ncr.com