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From: kevin@dvstsol.demon.co.uk (Kevin Mulholland)
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: 5 Jun 1997 09:30:12 GMT
Organization: U-NET Ltd
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In article <5n40t8$lr7@web.nmti.com>,
peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> In article <9BF85BEF6751F238.52014C2268C2C9B4.5539E15D07B092C9@library-proxy.airnews.net>,
> Michail Brzitwa <mb@ichabod.han.de> wrote:
>> I thought it was written in C and some Assembler, and it was Douglas,
>> not Barry.
>
> You're right. I'm getting confused with Tunis.
>
> You're trapped in a maze of twisty little UNIX variants, all similar.
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more like :
you're trapped in a newsthread, responses all alike.
anyone got any new (other) acronyms TLA's etc. (i.e. not dd, cc, su) ?
PS I can pronounce TLA, Te-LA, sounds vaguely Welsh ?
kpm.
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