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3/15 What this the meaning of "biff" (as in a program's name) ?
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\_ and why is biff sometimes related to this unreadable
junk?
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\ eYe cunt r34d ths sh1t.
\_ "Dood what's this k-rad program you say?!?!
"For no reason I got a Woodrow the size of Everest!!!"
\_ man 1 biff: it tells you when you have new mail.
\_ I know what biff does. I was wondering what the word "biff"
means.
\_ Read the man page I pointed you at. "The biff command
appeared in 4.0BSD. It was name after the dog of Heidi
Stettner. He died in August 1993, at 15."
\_ That's sad if true.
\_ I believe it is. The foldoc entry is relevent and seems
to confirm it. Say, I wonder if anyone on soda was
there when they were developing BSD? Could be we have
someone who knew Biff.
\_ http://www.instantweb.com/~foldoc/contents.html
See "biff", "b1ff".
\_ http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/biff.html
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/B1FF.html |
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