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From: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Bss means... (correction)
Message-ID: <127@hou3c.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Nov-83 14:02:48 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 29 14:02:48 1983
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Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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According to the Lil manual, written by P. J. Plauger, "bss" is an acronym
from antiquity standing for "block started by symbol".  (To answer the next
question, Lil is a very low level language that went away a long time ago.)
					Kenneth Almquist