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From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: what is 'frobbed'?
Message-ID: <37805@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 8 Sep 89 23:17:58 GMT
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In-reply-to: psm@manta.NOSC.MIL's message of 6 Sep 89 21:39:10 GMT


>In looking at some unix source code, I've encountered several uses of
>the word 'frobbed'.  From the context, it appears that it means
>'manipulated in some unspecified way'.  Is this an accurate
>interpretation, or is there another meaning?  Is this even a
>unix-domain word, or just some neologism generated by a bored
>programmer?

It's short for FROBNIFICATE, c.f. The Hacker's Dictionary.
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