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From: Richard Kettlewell <richard@greenend.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 14 May 1997 18:29:10 +0100
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wcochran@eecs.wsu.edu (Wayne Cochran - CS) writes:

>perl = pratical extraction and report language

That's not a very eclectic expansion.

>udp  = unix domain protocol

user datagram protocol.

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Richard Kettlewell               http://www.elmail.co.uk/~richard/

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