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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: unix acronyms - collecting a list?
Date: 7 Jul 1997 18:00:40 GMT
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In article <5ppvt3$ili@nnrp4.farm.idt.net>,
Johan Kullstam  <johan19@IDT.NET> wrote:
> one of my favorite man page quotes if from `ls' where it has

> OPTIONS

>   ls has an unbelievable number of options.

> this was on a diab data unix.

I think the original was "scads of options". Eventually it went beyond scads,
I guess.
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