[olug] TLA duplicity

[Bill Brush]

olug-bounces at olug.org wrote on 02/04/2004 07:30:46 AM:

>
> I still say there's two types of TLA (off the top of my head during the
> meeting last night):
>
> TLA: Three Letter Abbreviations
> mnt usr lib tmp dev opt var bin vim
>
> TLA: Three Letter Acronyms
> pwd pid uid gid cpu gnu lug ntp ide irc ram rom dvd cdr lvm
>
> ?: What are these short for anyway?
> cat tac tar

cat = conCATenate
tar = TApe aRchive (or Tape ARchive)

Bill