Buffy and Biff were/are slang names for generic yuppie scum. Biff
is *the* original program to notify a user about mail. Xbiff is a
version for X. Xbuffy is an improved version. Buffy the vampire
slayer came along after the original yuppie scum.
HTH,
Jeffrey
Quoting Russell Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Mon 02/14/00 at 01:20 AM -0500, Russell Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Could someone explain where or how the BUFFY_SIZE option got its name?
>
> Still hoping for an answer here. Does no one the list know why BUFFY_SIZE
> or xbuffy were given that name? Who wrote the xbuffy patch?
>
> I mean, there isn't a DRAGON option is there?
>
> I'm actually trying to respond to someone who asked this very question, absurdly
> accusing mutt of being influenced by pop-culture frivolity, and I know that the
> original xbuffy patch had nothing to do with this, yet I don't know why it *was*
> called that either . . .
>
>
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