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From: davel@hpcupt1.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: biff (INFO-UNIX Digest  V4#082)
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Date: Fri, 4-Dec-87 18:34:14 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  4 18:34:14 1987
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> "biff" is a funny one.  Everyone asks "where does the name come from".
> In fact, biff was the name of a dog who hung around the fifth floor of Evans
> Hall at UC Berkeley in 1981.  The programmer of biff (I forget the name)
> couldn't come up with a name, so it was named after the dog.

I always thought that "biff" stood for the phrase "notify me asynchronously
when mail arrives".

After being run through crypt, of course. ;-)

-Dave Lennert   HP   ihnp4!hplabs!hpda!davel