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Subject:Re: What kind of FILE names do you make up? From:Beth Friedman <bjf -at- WAVEFRONT -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:55:55 -0500
At 03:38 PM 6/10/99 -0600, ddavis wrote:
>I was browsing the Microsoft Manual of Style today, and I noticed that they
>specifically said when making up fake file names NOT to use "fu" or "fu.bar"
>for sample file names.
>
>If there are any current or former Microsoft writers out there, I am curious
>about the history behind this admonition. Does MS documentation have a
>reputation for suggestive examples?
I bet it's because of the acronym FUBAR, as in "fucked up beyond all
recognition."
However, I thought the more standard use for fake file names was foo or
foo.bar.
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"UNIX is user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are."
Beth Friedman
bjf -at- wavefront -dot- com
