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From: abh0@GTE.COM (Andrew Hudson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Pronunciations (was: And how do you pronounce "csh"?)
Message-ID: <7700@bunny.GTE.COM>
Date: 26 Oct 89 14:00:21 GMT
References: <929@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> <4305@csd4.csd.uwm.edu> <3598@frame.UUCP> <440@nixba.UUCP> <11411@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: abh0@bunny.UUCP (Andrew Hudson)
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In article <11411@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>>		awk = a - w - k
>
>awk: bailing out near line 1
>
>Obviously it's inspired by an "auk" (a bird) with a parachute;
>there are even T-shirts to corroborate this view.
It was my understanding that this was a BRL localism. I read
the BRL internal AWK reference and heard about more from Steve Wolfe
(bless his networking heart).  Do you have more references on this??

>Gee, isn't this silly.
Heck yeah!

- Andrew Hudson
abh0@gte.com
-- 
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