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From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Re^2: BSS data segment
Message-ID: <1804@frog.UUCP>
Date: 17 Aug 89 01:07:00 GMT
References: <69@harald.UUCP> <312@hitech.ht.oz>
Organization: Misanthropes-R-Us
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In article <312@hitech.ht.oz>, clyde@hitech.ht.oz (Clyde Smith-Stubbs) writes:
> From article <69@harald.UUCP>, by jba@harald.ruc.dk (Jan B. Andersen):
> > mark@inmet writes:
> >>As a new comer to UNIX and C I have always wondered what BSS stands for??
> I always thought it was Block Storage Segment.

Of course not.  It's "British Motor Works."

(DON'T SAY IT!)
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John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA 508-626-1101
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