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From: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: nonsense words for files
Message-ID: <1940@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-May-85 04:26:24 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  2 04:26:24 1985
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Summary: 

I typically name temporary files Ugh and Argh.

This may be in reference to what Mark Swanson calls the Ugh and Argh
School of Fantasy Role-Playing Game Naming:  as in Dungeons and Dragons,
Chivalry and Sorcery, Tunnels and Trolls,....

When I first got my home computer, I made the mistake of naming a
temporary file "test" while logged in as root, and then discovered I
couldn't shut down the machine until I removed it.  Seems that part of
the shutdown procedure is writing a file named "test," and if there's already
one of that name, it just logs you in again.

--Lee Gold