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From: David Lawver <dmlawver@facstaff.wisc.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: unix acronyms - collecting a list?
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 12:00:53 -0500
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> > >>users. (Same thing I suppose.) To quote from the vi manual: "vi -
> > >>pronounced vee-eye".

Not on the three major-vendor Unices I checked...

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