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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!EU.net!Norway.EU.net!uninett.no!news.uni-c.dk!news.inet.tele.dk!not-for-mail From: Peter Dalgaard BSA <p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk> 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: 20 May 1997 01:19:27 +0200 Organization: Little, if any Lines: 24 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <x24tbzjbi8.fsf@bush.kubism.ku.dk> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <337A003F.6A7B@ncofsi.com> <5lii72$f0@sjx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com> <5lnfod$q8@news.inforamp.net> <5lpf7o$9s0@web.nmti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: stat.kubism.ku.dk X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45218 comp.os.linux.misc:176184 comp.os.linux.x:62051 alt.os.linux:21413 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3343 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41277 gnu.misc.discuss:31390 comp.unix.solaris:106962 peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > > In article <5lnfod$q8@news.inforamp.net>, > Lawrence Cragg <Cragg@Inforamp.Net> wrote: > > Somewhere I've seen bc as a command meaning "beautify C" (I'm serious!) > > cb -- C Beautifier. Now outdated and replaced with "indent". With the option -s, it would use spaces around all operators, Kernighan & Ritchie style. Unfortunately, it would also transform "1e-6" to "1e - 6", which conspired with a bug in the portable C compiler parsing that as 1e0 - 6, alias -5. Did weird stuff to my loop termination conditions... I used to say that cb -s meant "create bug, silently". -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907