Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 17:19:31 -0500 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: OLOCA From: Nicholas Bodley Organization: Semi-chaotic Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-15 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: User-Agent: Opera7.23/Win32 M2 build 3227 Delightful collection! I don't think your acronym list should have any that haven't appeared, but... LLLL: Life's Little Lessons Learned. (Also L^4) We who say that acronyms are acronyms only if you can pronounce them (i.e., RADAR, SONAR, LORAN, etc.) are fighting a losing battle. There just doesn't seem to be an equally-catchy word to describe the likes of VM and FTP; even Richard Lederer could only come up with "initialism" for the more-general case. Fwiw, I just installed Cygwin (98 SE), and [less] complains of a missing .dll and won't run. (However, IIRC, the Pause key works! Fantastic!) I'm temporarily distracted from going to the FAQ; that's my next place to go. What you folk are doing is quite interesting; reminds me of loopback and UMSDOS, but doesn't seem to be either. NNTR Here's wishing you a bright and shiny New Year, but if you prefer a matte finish, by all means may have that, instead. -- Nicholas Bodley <#o#> Waltham, Mass. Using Opera browser 7.5 Build 3498 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/