[Samba] Re: OT: Is "Samba" an acronym?

Daniel Ramaley daniel.ramaley at DRAKE.EDU
Thu Mar 3 17:23:55 GMT 2005


On Thursday 03 March 2005 11:04 am, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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>JLB wrote:
>| Is Samba an acronym? Below it's written
>| in all-caps (i.e. "SAMBA"). Should it be thus?
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>The (true) urban legend is thus:
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>$ grep -i ^s.*m.*b.* /usr/share/dict/words

I must be really dense today; i don't get it. I ran that command and got 
a list of 40 words, few with any obvious connection to Samba. Was it 
supposed to return just one word?

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