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.
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