Re: What kind of FILE names do you make up?

[Arran Stewart <Arran -dot- Stewart -at- LBC -dot- COM -dot- AU>]

> -----Original Message-----
>
> <<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. ... I am curious about the history behind this
admonition>>
>
> I bet it's because of the acronym FUBAR, as in "fucked up beyond all
> recognition."

This is probably MS's reasoning. However the derivation of the names is
obscure - see the Jargon Files entries at, inter alia,
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/frames/foo.html and
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/frames/foobar.html.

And note that FUBAR is a perfectly acceptable acronym for a VAX's Failed
UniBus Address Register.        :-)

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Arran Stewart
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