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From: frank@zen.UUCP (Frank Wales)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards,news.misc
Subject: Re: History: foo and fubar are unrelated
Message-ID: <642@zen.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 16-Oct-87 17:27:59 EST
Article-I.D.: zen.642
Posted: Fri Oct 16 17:27:59 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 25-Oct-87 22:05:56 EST
References: <1266@mucs.UX.CS.MAN.AC.UK> <1632@chinet.UUCP> <1539@cognos.UUCP> <313@gvgspd.UUCP>
Reply-To: frank@zen.UUCP (Frank Wales)
Organization: Zengrange Limited, Leeds, England
Lines: 15
Keywords: fred bert blip bill dave
Summary: other file names
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In article <313@gvgspd.UUCP> mrk@gvgspd.UUCP (Michael R. Kesti) writes:
>In article <1539@cognos.UUCP> roberts@cognos.UUCP (Robert Stanley) writes:
>>My own choice has, for many years, been 'fred', which is a cycle of
>>four keys under my frequently idle left index finger.
>I, too, use fred, and, unless it was subliminally supplied to me, thought
>that I had made this up myself.  I had used it for years, and then began to
>discover that *MANY* others use it as well!  This never fails to amaze me!

"fred" is the number one random file name here too; others in common use
are "bert" (?), "blip" (??), and "bill" and "dave" (guess whose equipment
we use).  As far as I know, *nobody* here use "foo".


Frank Wales,              [frank@zen.uucp<->uunet!mcvax!ukc!zen.co.uk!frank]
Zengrange Ltd, Greenfield Rd, Leeds, ENGLAND, LS9 8DB. (+44) 532 489048 x220.