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Article #4463Re: Speaking of rm...
From: c14... GORDON KEEGAN
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 1990 19:58
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 1990 19:58
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In article <1990Sep13....@Neon.Stanford.EDU>, j...@Neon.Stanford.EDU (John Kallen) writes... >I read that the UN*X command for deleting files once was named 'dsw'. >The author claimed this was for "do swidanya" (sp?) == "goodbye" in >Russian. Can anyone verify this? Spelled phonetically, it comes out "da sveedanya". There _is_ a 'w' in the Russian alphabet, but it's pronounced 'sh'! I think your author was taking some literary license... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Gordon Keegan | | | Systems Programmer | "The story's done, Bronco, | | Academic Computing Services | don't get weird on me now!" | | University of Texas, Arlington| Bill Murray as H. S. Thompson | ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!helios!utarlg.utarl.edu!c145gmk From: c14...@utarlg.utarl.edu (GORDON KEEGAN) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Speaking of rm... Message-ID: <8226@helios.TAMU.EDU> Date: 13 Sep 90 19:58:16 GMT References: <1990Sep13.192227.7814@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Sender: use...@helios.TAMU.EDU Reply-To: c14...@utarlg.utarl.edu Organization: The University of Texas at Arlington Lines: 15 Posted: Thu Sep 13 20:58:16 1990 News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit