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From: schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Andreas Schwab)
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: 16 May 1997 14:20:00 +0200
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J Wunsch <j@ida.interface-business.de> writes:

|> peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) wrote:
|> (meaning of `bss')

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

Block Storage Segment/Section.
-- 
Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de              completely different"