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From: mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: RE: UNIX NAME ABBREVIATIONS
Message-ID: <10388@slate.BBN.COM>
Date: Thu, 19-Nov-87 10:17:03 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 19 10:17:03 1987
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References: <10376@brl-adm.ARPA> <16550@topaz.rutgers.edu> <388@cogen.UUCP>
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In comp.unix.questions (<388@cogen.UUCP>), alen@cogen.UUCP (Alen Shapiro) writes:
>In article <16550@topaz.rutgers.edu> ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes:
>>
>>crt - c run time
>
>well, sort of, but the normal use of crt (before C was even a twinkle
>in anyone's eye was):
>	Cathode Ray Tube

I suspect Ron was talking about "crt" as in "crt0.o", which is the usual
name for the piece of code that gets included automaitcally by most Unix
linkers.  The code in crt0.o contains the intial entry point called at
runtime, which does things like set up argc, argv, and envp and then call 
main.