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Subject: Re: UNIX NAME ABBREVIATIONS
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In article <18799@bbn.COM> jbatson@tron.bbn.com.UUCP (James Batson) writes:

|What does "biff" (the mail alarm) stand for?

While the manual page implies it stands for

	B-e notified
	IF mail arrived and who it is
	F-rom

a letter in Unix World/Review revealed that it was named after the
Author's dog. 

re: cat

I thought cat was short for

	Concatenate All Text

But perhaps this is another 'revisionist' attempt to clarify the jargon?