Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!oliveb!tymix!cirrusl!dhesi%cirrusl From: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Origin/meaning of zoo, looz, fiz, stuff, etc. Message-ID: <1020@cirrusl.UUCP> Date: 30 Oct 89 05:23:52 GMT References: <1466@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Sender: news@cirrusl.UUCP Reply-To: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) Organization: Cirrus Logic Inc. Lines: 23 In article <1466@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes: >I first met zoo back when pkarc, zoo, and dwc were having a battle on >Magpie, with new versions coming out almost weekly. One of the common >commands for zoo is "xoo" which most people would pronounce as "zoo". I >think that there was a program called "ooz" (zoo backwards) and that >looz was "little ooz." > >If Rahul is following this thread he can clarify it. If you wanted a short (e.g. three letter) name that meant roughly its opposite when spelled backwards, what would you pick? I couldn't find anything but "zoo" which, when reversed, means "ooz", which is about as close as I could get to archiving and dearchiving. Looz is Ooz with List. (The original Ooz just oozed, it didn't list.) Stuff was a defensive manouver in reaction to the eight million or so "find" programs for MS-DOS, none of which could be told apart from any others by its name. "Find" finds stuff; "Stuff" does the same. Rahul Dhesi UUCP: oliveb!cirrusl!dhesi Use above addresses--email sent here via Sun.com will probably bounce.