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From: j... Jonathan A. Chandross
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 1990 20:41

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j...@Neon.Stanford.EDU (John Kallen)
> 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?

Nice try, but it stands for "Do Shit Work".


Jonathan A. Chandross
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