[voyager] Re: foo?
Hi Steve, On Sun, Feb 1, 2004, you wrote: afaik foo was the command or file name used in example code. aka foobar Steve How does this go, Hooray, I can answer this one -- actual two. First, foo is often used as the last file when using a compression program to recursively compress a bunch of files, as might be used by a program being compressed. Also, it is often used as the last file in a series of files which are uploaded. This way, should something go wrong during the opera- tion and scramble something in the foo file, it does not matter as foo has no other purpose. Now, foobar. The actual term is, FUBAR: F*cked Up Beyond All Recognition. I was told some time ago that this was term was either created then or just became famous then whe things fouled up during World War II. Hope this helps. Regards, Julian. -- Author of MSH Tutorial V. 3.0. Found on Aminet -- MSHTut30.lha Julian Aronowitz. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[voyager] Re: foo?
Ciao Julian Aronowitz, On 2-Feb-2004, you wrote: How does this go, Hooray, I can answer this one -- actual two. First, foo is often used as the last file when using a compression program to recursively compress a bunch of files, as might be used by a program being compressed. Also, it is often used as the last file in a series of files which are uploaded. This way, should something go wrong during the opera- tion and scramble something in the foo file, it does not matter as foo has no other purpose. in Italy we use pippo.xxx but i those situation, i still doesn't understand, what Zapek meant to say. foo= I'm here! I'm still alive! i'm not forgotten of you! . . . . . or ?!?! Ciao tsb BITPLANE The new italian Amiga magazine http://www.bitplane.it tsb Coccini Franco mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://space.virgilio.it/[EMAIL PROTECTED] A4000/040- 30mhz- 24 fast + 2 chip OS 3.9-TbcPlus- Genlock Electrocraft Genesis+AmiTCP 4.3-CV64-Picasso96 Repulse Gold - XSurf 2 - Alice ADSL tsb
[voyager] Re: foo?
afaik foo was the command or file name used in example code. aka foobar Steve How does this go, Hooray, I can answer this one -- actual two. There is a RFC about the Etymology of Foo: ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3092.txt Have fun :) Bernd
