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Re: lynx-dev (patch) INSTALLATION & Options refs


From: Kim DeVaughn
Subject: Re: lynx-dev (patch) INSTALLATION & Options refs
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 02:51:47 -0700

On Fri, Nov 26, 1999, Philip Webb (address@hidden) said:
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| `cp' is a standard English abbreviation for `compare':
| the majority of English speakers (incl non-natives) should know it.

Really ...?  I've never seen/heard of it used in that way.  I would
have guessed it was a reference to the (UNIX) cp(1) utility program.

Learn something new every day (though I do think it will confuse some
people, given the context) ...

/kim

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