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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!cedb!dan
  2. From: dan@cedb.dpcsys.org (Dan Busarow)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
  4. Subject: Re: Unix naming conventions from the dark times
  5. Message-ID: <285@cedb.dpcsys.org>
  6. Date: 29 Aug 92 20:12:36 GMT
  7. References: <1992Aug27.110730.16828@fwi.uva.nl>
  8. Organization: DPC Systems, Monrovia, CA
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  11. In article <1992Aug27.110730.16828@fwi.uva.nl>, stolk@fwi.uva.nl (Bram) writes:
  12. > 
  13. > But what about names like 'var'?
  14. > My first (wild) guess would be an association with 'variable', right?
  15. > 
  16. > Surely, some elderly fellow-unix-user must remember the origins for
  17. > those names from the early days...
  18.                        ^^^^^
  19. The early days of Sys V R4 ? :)
  20.  
  21. Dan
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  26.    Dan Busarow             dan@cedb.dpcsys.org              uunet!cedb!dan
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