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From: mah@mhorton.net (Mary Ann Horton)
Subject: [TUHS] Etymology of dsw(1)
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 13:40:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140912134009.206319igxvipo0mh@webmail.mhorton.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1409130602290.63870@aneurin.horsfall.org>

I heard both versions of this as well.  Or rather, I heard the second,  
and was surprised to see the first in the manual.

Quoting Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org>:

> Speaking of things etymological, I've heard two versions of that for
> dsw(1).
>
> Delete from Switch Register (delete file whose i-num is in CSR)
>
> Delete Sh*t Work (same, but expressed a bit more robustly)




  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-09-12 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-12 20:05 Dave Horsfall
2014-09-12 20:11 ` John Cowan
2014-09-12 20:18   ` Mantas Mikulėnas
2014-09-13  3:05     ` Dave Horsfall
2014-09-12 20:40 ` Mary Ann Horton [this message]
2014-09-12 22:15   ` Carl Lowenstein

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