Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!ncsuvx!mcnc!decvax!ima!mirror!frog!john 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 Lines: 12 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!) -- John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA 508-626-1101 ...!decvax!frog!john, john@frog.UUCP, ...!mit-eddie!jfw, jfw@eddie.mit.edu