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From: melby@daffy.yk.fujitsu.co.jp (John B. Melby)
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Subject: Re: TWM - Tab or Tom's ?
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Date: 15 Mar 91 07:58:33 GMT
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In-reply-to: Jim_Ault@mts.rpi.EDU's message of 14 Mar 91 14:28:52 GMT

The answer is right there in the README file (in the X11R4 clients/twm
directory), which reads as follows:

> To save Tom LaStrange from being blaimed for any of the massive numbers
> of changes that have been done to twm since gave up control of it, the name
> "twm" now stands for "Tab Window Manager" (try the SqueezeTitle option to
> see why).

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John B. Melby
Fujitsu Limited, Machida, Japan
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