Or, from the OpenBSD man pages:
The biff command appeared in 4.0BSD. biff was Heidi Stettner's dog. He
died in August 1993, at 15.
which suggests an earlier etymology than the hacker's dictionary.
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On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 10:12 AM, Thomas Roessler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) typed:
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On 2000-02-16 15:28:43 +0800, Sverre Slotte wrote:
> I remember having read ("Life with Unix" by somebody Ressler?)
> that Biff was a dog who lived with its owner in Berkeley (in the
> beginning of the 1980s?). Biff used to bark at the mailman.
> Further down the hall from lived some of the BSD-h
"Jeffrey L . Taylor" wrote:
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> Buffy and Biff were/are slang names for generic yuppie scum. Biff
> is *the* original program to notify a user about mail.
I remember having read ("Life with Unix" by somebody Ressler?) that Biff
was a dog who lived with its owner in Berkeley (in the beginning of
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> 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 g
On 000215, at 22:29:25, Russell Hoover wrote:
> 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
> B
On Tue 02/15/00 at 10:29 PM -0500, Russell Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> there isn't a DRAGON option is there?
I mean a --VAMPIRES option . . .
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:> > Could someone explain where or how the BUFFY_SIZE option got its name?
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:> 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?
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:> I mean, there isn&
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
Could someone explain where or how the BUFFY_SIZE option got its name?
And does it cycle through incoming mailboxes only at the 'c' (change-folder)
prompt? And is that it's only function?
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