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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 15 May 1997 10:46:58 GMT
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peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) wrote:

(meaning of `bss')

> Block Start (something), IIRC.
> 
> Damn.

Block Starting Symbol.  I eventually forgot the origin (must be an old
assembler/machine language).

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j