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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!ncar!csn!nntp-xfer-1.csn.net!cbgw1.lucent.com!newshub.netnews.att.com!news From: Allen Kirby <akirby@att.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list? Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 09:34:56 -0400 Organization: AT&T - ITS Production Services Lines: 21 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <337B1100.3413@att.com> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <5len9s$h33$1@java.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De> Reply-To: akirby@att.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.20.25.* Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; U) To: Steffen Jahn <stjahn@sunpool.cs.uni-magdeburg.de> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:44988 comp.os.linux.misc:175398 comp.os.linux.x:61611 alt.os.linux:21170 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3240 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40942 gnu.misc.discuss:31278 comp.unix.solaris:106574 Lighten up - it was a joke. Steffen Jahn wrote: > > Rob McMahon (cudcv@csv.warwick.ac.uk.spam.off) wrote: > : wcochran@eecs.wsu.edu (Wayne Cochran - CS) writes: > : > : > how silly of me, UDP = user datagram protocol > : > : How's aboout Unreliable Datagram Protocol. > > RFC 768, J. Postel, 28 August 1980 > > This User Datagram Protocol (UDP) is defined to make available a > datagram mode of packet-switched computer communication in the > environment of an interconnected set of computer networks... -- --- Allen Kirby AT&T ITS Production Services akirby@att.com Alpharetta, GA.