Re: Funny how things get names... :)

according to
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/258509/etymology-of-linux-commands
it says
<< "

The Unix biff cmd (announce arrival of emails) was named after someone's dog
who barked whenever the mailman arrived. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biff

Many other such interesting tidbits from the early days of computing can be
found in The Jargon File.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon_File
" >>
but the text at the [[Biff]] article (see link above)
says, in part,
<< "
The Jargon File <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon_File>
contradicts[3]<http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/biff.html> (URL
of that link = http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/biff.html)
this [...] but confirms at least that the dog existed.
" >>
--
Mike Schwartz
Glendale AZ
schwartz@acm.org

On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Stephen <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:

> Look up an old app called biff
>
> On 1/3/09, Nathan England <nathan@paysonlinux.org> wrote:
> > On Thursday 01 January 2009 08:44:50 kitepilot@kitepilot.com
> > wrote:
> >> First read the first few lines of:
> >> http://packages.debian.org/sid/molly-guard
> >>
> >> Then jump to:
> >> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/molly-guard
> >>
> >> I wonder where Molly is now... :)
> >> ET
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> >
> > [...] My
> > Pastor's son likes to push every button [...]
> > one day, we found him standing next to the server pushing the
> > button. We promptly moved the server up much higher. [...]
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> Stephen
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