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-hackers, and they dedided to call the
mail-notification program "biff".
I guess buffy is a derivation of biff.
Sverre
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+EXACT_ADDRESS +ENABLE_NLS
Thanks in advance,
Sverre
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-HAVE_REGCOMP +USE_GNU_RX +HAVE_COLOR
+HAVE_PGP2 -BUFFY_SIZE
+EXACT_ADDRESS +ENABLE_NLS
Thanks in advance,
Sverre
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