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pet...@opus.cs.mcgill.ca (Peter Deutsch) writes:
>            How about other creatively named programs?
>Perhaps (and preferably) with a joke in the name or
>otherwise suitably obscure? I know lots in UNIX, others?
>Maybethose with nested recursive acronyms (HASP - Houston
>Automated Spool Program, SPOOL - Simultaneous Operations
>[On|Off] Line. Something like that). Anyways, what's the
>weirdest _you've_ heard or seen?
I used to work in Leeds.
I was helping with a Unix port to a machine which had a rather unusual
disk/tape controller. You couldn't write direct to tape (!), but could
only tell it a list of device/block numbers, which it would then
copy to tape. Thus, cpio and tar (trademarks acknowledged) weren't
any use to us. So, I wrote Eccup. (sounds a bit like backup, but
isn't the same thing at all). Eccup walked file trees, matching
names (so it could take cpio-like input), creating block lists
straight from the soul of the file system.

Eccup is a reservoir north of Leeds. It is a place of beauty
and for relaxation or recreation. Eccup is a place of tranquility.

None of this applied to the backup program, Eccup, of course.

Fortunately, the hardware vendors implemented a tape write routine
on the controller card fairly shortly after they started using Eccup.

(I also worked on backup software called Blog, Blup, Cresta and Cobra)

Jon?
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Jon Brawn, jo...@specialix.co.uk  (or for you bangers: ..!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!jonb)
  ``Once upon a time, not so very long ago, on a network not so very far away''